No Tomorrow:The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
French Enlightenment, French erotica

No Tomorrow: The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment is a book by Catherine Cusset. It traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth century - Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera , Prevost's Manon Lescaut, Crebillon's Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Thérèse philosophe, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story "Point de lendemain.

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