The Metaphysics of De Sade: Entropy, Modality and Quantity - Couverture rigide

Husbands, Conor

 
9783032080110: The Metaphysics of De Sade: Entropy, Modality and Quantity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3032080118 ISBN 13 : 9783032080110
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

This book present Sade’s core metaphysical commitments as a coherent and logical system. It analyses his central ontological principle of entropy and shows that Sade endorsed neither egoism nor materialism but was a forerunner to 19th Century thermodynamics. It then turns to his philosophy of money and finance, including his critique of phenomenology, his axiology, and his attack on theories of expected utility. It concludes by considering the extent to which a normative ethical theory can be salvaged from his otherwise largely deconstructive opus.

The Metaphysics of De Sade is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of early modern philosophy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Conor Husbands is a UK based philosophical scholar with a broad variety of metaphysical research interests. He has previously published  The Temporality of Determinacy with Palgrave (2022). His other previous publications include Klossowski’s Semotic of Intensity: Time, Language and the Vicious Circle (2020) and Esposito’s temporality of finance: Endogeneity and revisability in derivative transactions (2021). He holds an MPhysPhil in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Oxford.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3032080118
ISBN 13 
9783032080110
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
144
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