Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1914. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 85-108.

Thèse--Lettres--Paris IV, 1980. / Bibliogr. p. 989-1196 . Index.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as bases teóricas pelas quais o Marquês de Sade edificou sua filosofia, a saber, precisamente, a influência de La Mettrie e Holbach, o que compreende um estudo da natureza e a questão mecânica na composição dos seres, incorrendo a um determinismo fundamental na corrente materialista do século XVIII. Importa compreender de que maneira tomou a tese do homem como máquina e a ideia de uma natureza criadora-destruidora, que lhe permitiu um imoralismo declarado, pautado não somente na natureza mas em um ateísmo militante. As consequências desse percurso incorrem na tese do contra-iluminismo do Marquês de Sade que, homem de seu tempo, edificou uma obra pautada no combate, na denúncia, no discurso dominante que caracteriza a diferença entre fortes e fracos. A exigência de felicidade tem a realização do pleno curso das paixões, explorando todas as dimensões da máquina corporal que pode ser feliz, sob a ótica libertina, na prática do crime. O modo como Sade se antecipa em tratar do mal sendo um componente da natureza, fonte de prazer, resulta também na intolerância do libertino em relação à vítima. / This work aims to analyze the theoretical bases by which the Marquis de Sade built his philosophy, namely precisely the influence of La Mettrie and Holbach, which includes a study of nature and the mechanical question in the composition of beings, incurring to a fundamental determinism in the materialist current of the eighteenth century. It is important to understand how he took the thesis of mankind as a machine and the idea of a creative-destructive nature which allowed him to have a declared immoralism, based not only on nature, but also on militant atheism. The consequences of this path, incurs on the thesis of the counter-enlightenment of the Marquis de Sade who, man of his time, built a work based on combat, on denunciation, on the dominant discourse that characterizes the difference between strong and weak. The happiness demand is achieved by the total flow of passions, exploring all the dimensions of the corporal machine that can be happy, under the libertine optics, in the practice of crime. The way how Sade anticipates on treating evil as a component of nature, source of pleasure, also results in the intolerance of the libertine towards the victim.

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Taking Saba Mahmood's question 'Can secularism be other-wise?' (2010) as the starting point for a critical-historical investigation of the 'secular body' (Asad 2003; Hirschkind 2011), my thesis develops in two stages. In the first, I argue that current works of secular theory - particularly A Secular Age (Taylor 2007) - tend to rely on an excessively rationalistic conception of Enlightenment thought for the construction of their central conceptual categories (e.g. the 'immanent frame', 'buffered self', or 'modern exclusive humanism'), thus reinforcing a double-binary linking rationality to Euro-American secularity, and emotion to subaltern 'religion'. Against Taylor and others, I emphasise the contradictory, 'assembled' nature of Enlightenment discourse, and point to alternative, more body-centred strands of thought in key figures of the seventeenth-eighteenth-century French Enlightenment, such as Descartes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Helvétius, and Holbach. Against common perceptions, and drawing on a range of philosophical works, institutional reports, and stage plays in French and in translation, I suggest these figures in some ways reinstated emotion and the body against the rationalistic tendencies of the past. Insofar as 'the secular' was shaped by the Enlightenment, it emerged out of a conscious project of nationalist cultivation, based fundamentally on manipulating the body and emotions. In the second stage, I consider the way Orientalist representations of non-Western religions meshed with prevalent theories of political manipulation to generate an affective system of anti-Catholic propaganda geared towards the national good. Though existing critiques of Taylor tend to focus on the importance of religious (i.e. Christian) constructions of Oriental religions for the genealogy of secularity (e.g. Mahmood 2010), I suggest a distinctively secular form of Orientalism emerged in the eighteenth century, in which anti-religion, racism, and nationalism merged into a powerful weapon of republican discourse, congruent with ambient theories of emotion. The aesthetic manipulation of racist and Orientalist tropes in Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes (1721) and Voltaire's Le Fanatisme (1741), for example, can be read as a practical response to existing theory on the power of images to regulate people's passions in the national interest.