The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade  

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"The life and works of D. A. F. de Sade would thus have no other use value than the common use value of excrement; in other words, for the most part, one most often only loves the rapid (and violent) pleasure of voiding this matter and no longer seeing it." --"The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade" (1929) by Georges Bataille


"the work of philosophy as well as science or common sense ...has always had as its goal the establishment of the homogeneity of the world [through]...the identification of all the elements of which the world is composed."--"The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade" (1929) by Georges Bataille


"It is obvious that if men incapable of histrionics succeed those of today, they will not be able to better represent the tacky phraseology that only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at his disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that the Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke ..."--"The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade" (1929) by Georges Bataille

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The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade (An Open Letter to My Current Comrades) (1929, Fr: "La Valeur d'usage de D. A. F. de Sade") is an essay by Georges Bataille, published in an English translation in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939.

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