Title: Depravity disguised as avant-garde intellectualism
Review: The only possible value of de Sade's writing is to show how anyone, no matter how degenerate, can cloak his ideas in false intellectualism. De Sade advocates a reversion to barbarism, to an ethic of might makes right. De Sade's intellectual rehabilitiation is one of the great crimes of the 20th century. Anyone who finds de Sade appealing should read Roger Shattuck, "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography."
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