Download or read book Marquis de Sade for Beginners written by Stuart Hood and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the significance of Sade as a philosopher of the Enlightenment. It describes Sade's ruthless exploration of the fundamentals of morality - crime and justice, murder and capital punishment, the taboos and rights of sexual expression and the ethical basis of virtue and vice.