- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
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Part I: Sophocles' Antigone or The Invention of Politics: We the City - Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
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Part II D. A. F. de Sade's One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People - Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
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Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State - Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
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Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation - Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
Sade's Text and Sade's Times
Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- Chapter:
- (p.105) Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- Source:
- Binding Violence
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter examines D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, which is described as the story of a secret political bonding framed by war. It considers its history as well as various interpretations of the text. It suggests that the text resists the very idea of transgression—it “thinks through” the exception by which power transforms transgression into norm, and it links this transformation to the sealing of a social pact. Violence, in this transformation, becomes political: just as in Antigone, this violence does not dominate, it rather annihilates.
Keywords: D. A. F. Sade, 120 Days of Sodom, political bonding, war, violence, transgression
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
-
Part I: Sophocles' Antigone or The Invention of Politics: We the City - Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
-
Part II D. A. F. de Sade's One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People - Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
-
Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State - Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
-
Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation - Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index