SADE, AN IMPOSSIBLE HUMANISM?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i26p37-51Keywords:
Sade – French novel – philosophy – humanism – imagination.Abstract
At a moment in which the philosophy of the Enlightenment seems to suggest a worldview freed from ancient fatality, and in which the French Revolution transforms cyclic time in progressive time, Sade exposes a type of fictional imagination that denounces anthropological optimism and the hope in progress. He refuses providentialism in history, finalism in nature, but denounces to the same extent the faith in a single man, as well as in all men assembled. Would this dark vision be the equivalent to Rousseau’s state of nature, a theoretical fiction destined to a better comprehension of the becoming of humanity?
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2015-12-18
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SADE, AN IMPOSSIBLE HUMANISM?. (2015). Cadernos De Ética E Filosofia Política, 1(26), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i26p37-51
