Marquis de Sad. Utopia of evil. Bovoir S., De, Batay Z.

“The garden deserves attention not as a sexual pervert: here he has not invented anything new, no less interesting cases are described in psychiatry textbooks. His deviations from the norm gain value when he develops a complex system of excuses, ”wrote Simone de Bovoir, a French writer, a representative of existential philosophy. This act contains the desire to overcome its separation from people. That is why the fate of the garden and creativity acquire a deep universal meaning. Can we exist in society without sacrificing our individuality? ”

was also considered another famous French philosopher Georges Batai, who was engaged in understanding the irrational aspects of social life: blasphemy, temptation, self -destroying erotic experience. Studies by Simona de Bovoir and Georges Batay are supplemented in this book by the works of several more French philosophers, allowing, from different points of view, to evaluate the creative heritage of the Marquis de Sad.