Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion
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Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion (2003) is a book by Ronald Hayman on Marquis de Sade.
In this book, based on a 1978 work by the same author, Ronald Hayman shows that 120 Days by Sade is based on the French materialists, but not so much on its most famous exponent, Baron d'Holbach, but rather on de La Mettrie's Homme machine:
- "We are in [Nature's] hands, as a pendulum is in those of the clock-maker... so we are no more criminal in following the impetus of the primitive movements which govern us than the Nile is in its flooding or the sea in its destruction."
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