Reading Sade Today

Desire

Clara Serra, Marta Segarra and Begonya Saez Tajafuerce

In the work of Sade, fulfilment of boundless desire can lead to freedom but also to evil. The philosophers Clara Serra and Marta Segarra speak about the relationship between desire and free will in a conversation moderated by Begonya Saez Tajafuerce.

Politics

Éric Marty & Albert Mestres

The essayist Éric Marty speaks with writer and translator Albert Mestres about the political reading of Sade’s work, perhaps the dimension of his texts that is the least known to the general publica, nd its relationship with the present.

Morality

Joan-Carles Mèlich & Laura Llevadot

The morality and its role when it comes to deciding what is considered socially acceptable was one of the key themes of Sade’s work. The philosophers Joan-Carles Mèlich  and Laura Llevadot discuss the relationship between cruelty and morality in Sade's work.

Trangression

Juan Francisco Ferré, María Santana and Eloy Fernández Porta

Sade’s questioning the norms of gender, freedom, and evil resulted in his being imprisoned and socially ostracised. But a century later, he was to become a source of inspiration for those thinkers who wished to overturn the status quo.