Must We Burn Sade?

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Summary: The REAL Sade
Review: Sawhney's unique collaboration with renowned Sadean scholars provides us with an invaluable tool to learn and understand the enigmatic faces of the Marquis de Sade.

Sade's infamous reputation as a perverse and immoral philosopher is delightfully teased apart as we enter into the depths of the libertine's mind. Must We Burn Sade? captures and explores this most interesting figure of the Enlightenment by discussing how Sade's philosophical writings continue to influence our modern age of uncertainty and how he correctly prophesized our current state in history.

After reading the volume, I feel as if Sade, in the words of the introductory chapter, "remains our closest companion." A must-have anthology for any scholar on Sade.

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Summary: Simone de Beauvoir and Sade
Review: SdB wrote a book on Sade entitled Faut-il Bruler Sade? (Must We Burn Sade), and the title of this collection comes from hers. Sade is a great concern among the French left. Somehow they think that he is an important moralist (this is how SdB closes her book on him, and why she says we mustn't burn him, but must read him, and hold him close to our hearts).

I've read a lot of Sade's work, and a lot of this collection, but am left wondering whether once you dispense with God, whether this is all that's left.

Feminism has always struck me as institutionalized sadism. It burns men, and destroys them. This is the essence of it. Sade is a great justifier of acts as he puts a moral spin on what is the equivalent of getting fun out of hurting other people.

Women in recent years have turned towards Sade as a great explicator and justifier. This is why men on average are living five years less than women. It is all the things they do to us, and have always done, but that are now institutionalized. The feminist-sadist guru is Simone de Beauvoir, who loves the Marquis de Sade, and considers him to be a great moralist.

Read this book and smell the burning flesh of the concentration camps of the universities, the high schools, and the elementary schools. Sadism is the centerpiece of the left, and the very centerpiece of feminism. It is the black heart at the center of all the piety and self-importance, a black hole of rage that gets satisfaction through the humiliation, torment, and destruction of men and boys.