Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit (Exquisit Bücher ; Nr. 155)

by Iwan Bloch

German

Genres: Nonfiction, History, France

Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Iwan Bloch (also known as Ivan Bloch) was a Berlin dermatologist.

Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904.

Together with Magnus Hirschfeld and Albert Eulenburg, Bloch proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality: Sexualwissenschaft or sexology. In 1906 he wrote "The sexual life of our time", a complete encyclopedia of the sexual sciences in their relation to modern civilization.

Reviews

[Matthew Crowley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent, many-angled introduction to de Sade. Bloch admits he is something of an apologist for the Marquis as he attempts to explain the culture of de Sade's France, how it could have produced such an amazing creature. It turns out de Sade, who seems to us of somewhat unusual tastes, was not quite so unique among his fellow eighteenth century French. De Sade was only really giving a colorful picture of what he himself called, "the age of complete corruption."

[Vane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesante análisis.
Por otro lado es curiosos leer a Sade desde el punto de vista de un conservado. Por cierto, sera error de traducción, o edición que ...confunde "homosexualidad" con "pedofilia".

[Jesse Winslow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll sum up my feeling with a quote from the book.

"The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings"-Iwan Bloch