Allen, William (2017) Dialectics in turmoil:: Adorno’s literal reading of Sade. Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 22 (4), 115-131. (doi:10.1080/0969725X.2017.1406051).
Abstract
Consideration of the work of Sade in relation to Adorno usually refers to the much-discussed chapter from Dialektik der Aufklärung. But Adorno made a number of other remarks across his career that suggest a very different reading. I will discuss the three most significant of these remarks and show how they develop an approach to the libidinal aspect of aesthetic experience that challenges our understanding of the relation of thought and language. In doing so, Sade’s works indicate an extraordinary liberation of the dialectic of natural-history through a mimesis of desire, which is made apparent in what Sade’s texts literally present; in their contingency and also their facticity.
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