GUILHERME GRANÉ DINIZ

One of the first topics that catch the attention of any scholar of the work of the Marquis de Sade is the story of his reception. Specifically, the fact that, having written in the eighteenth century, Sade’s thought only received a more significant reception in twentieth-century France. In this sense, this work aims to understand some historical-philosophical aspects of this process of reception of De Sade’s thought. Especially, to understand the interplay between the conditions that made this reception possible and what it brought to the scene of French philosophical thought at the time. Secondly, how, from these contributions, a philosophical way of thinking is formed that is, to some extent, a tributary of sadean thought. The thesis to be defended is linked mainly to this second question: it is a matter of affirming that this reception of De Sade’s work was so not casual and so much linked to the structuring condition of the philosophical discourse of the time that it had a central weight in the formation of a certain philosophical thought characteristic of France in the second part of the twentieth century: post-structuralism. Recognizing, of course, the impossibility of talking about post-structural thinking as a whole, it will be the case of focusing on what appears to be one of its constitutive aspects – the deliberate attempt to confuse philosophical and literary writing – as it appears on the works of two of its main proponents: Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes