Meet Author and Northeastern Professor James Weiss

Author and Northeastern Professor James Weiss discusses his book, the "Marquis de Sade's Veiled Social Criticism" on November 19, 2008. The French writer and revolutionary the Marquis de Sade was infamous for frequenting the local insane asylum, producing pornography, and allegedly conversing with the Devil. Lesser known is that the supposed madman took sharp jabs at a deteriorating France in The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom—his story of a castle and its captives trapped by fear and ignorance. Weiss explores the complicated mind of the Marquis de Sade, who constructed a philosophical mirror to shock France into recognizing the error of its ways.

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[BIGBEANHEADTED]

Almost a direct reflection of today's world - 2012.

[GTBeauregard]

What wonderful leftist profs -

Prof. Peter Singer of Princeton,: “Sex with animals does not always include cruelty…not everyone objects to being used by his or her dog…” Prof. Marjorie Garber of Harvard, “not just love of dogs, but love with dogs as well.” Prof. Susan Scotto of Mount Holyoke, ‘stripping class” Prof. Harris Mirkin of the U. of Missouri: “Children are the last bastion of the old sexual morality” (Source: ‘Whistleblower”: Brainwashing 101, vol. 14, no. 9)

[GTBeauregard]

Professor, what was the crime that the Marquis de Sade was arrested for? You speak with a stifled chuckle as you tell the story. Cutting up this prostitute with a knife during one of his sadist nights of horror - yet you speak as if he was a martyr. This crowd laughs right along with him - sheep.

[GTBeauregard]

Prostitutes, orgies, sadism, coprophillia, rape, cutting, bisexuality, - the Left will celebrate any revolutionary.

“heroic apostle of individual rights, a giant of philosophical thought, and a martyr for freedom of conscience.” (Sade, a Biographical Essay, by Lawrence Bongie, 2000)

Man has dark impulses yes, and you celebrate them. “How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!”

Philosophy in the Boudoi

[cultictwalette]

There's not enough Donatien Alphonse François on Youtube! Despite the terrible audio sound, Professor James Weiss' take on the 'Divine Marquis' is an interesting approach, which attempts to understand while deepening the mystery of this 'unnamable' author.

[PhilosophyLeckie3]

Interesting lecture,i am looking forward to reading the book,its a shame there is not more videos like this about the Marquis de Sade on YouTube seeing that he had such a great influence on many philosophers of the 20th century,Freud,Nitzsche,Sartre,­Barthes,Foucault,etc.He is a anti-body to philosophy he cannot be assimilated within any philosophical system obviously why he is largley ignored by philosophy much like Georges Bataille.