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Sadean or sadeian means pertaining to the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) or his writings -- particularly sadomasochistic erotica -- or his philosophies. It differs from Sadism in that the latter is only used mainly in sexual contexts.
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Materialism
Sade freely borrowed from the French materialists of the Enlightenment. In Juliette he advises Juliette to "Nourris-toi sans cesse des grands principes de Spinoza, de Vanini, de l'auteur du Système de la Nature."
Innate cruelty
The term "Sadean" is most commonly used to denote an anti-Rousseauist and anti-"Back to nature!" attitude, in the sense that it believes in the innate cruelty of man..
Precursor to Nietzsche
Pierre Klossowski, in his 1947 book Sade my neighbour analyzes Sade's philosophy as a precursor of Nietzsche's nihilism, negating both Christian values and the materialism of the Enlightenment.
See also
- Sade's atheism
- Sade and psychopathology
- Sade and Rousseau
- Philosophy in the Bedroom
- Sadeian women
- The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography
