![]() Footnote 4 Yet, in what manner can a writer famous for his self-centered and cruel heroes be thought to further her ethical and political goals? Even more intriguingly, the idea that Sade is in fact considered an ethical model by Beauvoir is evoked by the essay-as if he was an example of the authentic personality type, at the top of the ladder of characters proposed in The Ethics of Ambiguity. Footnote 3 Beauvoir herself, however, declared that the anthology Privilèges, where the essay is clearly the most important text, constituted an introduction to her whole philosophy. Indeed, her essay was for a long time considered something of a disgrace to Beauvoir by feminist theoreticians, who consequently refused to deal with it. Beauvoir’s fascination with Sade in this essay can be linked with the seemingly unresolvable asymmetry in the relation between men and women in The Second Sex: in his writings is revealed sexuality’s potential to subvert patriarchal norms and mystifications, and perhaps, in the end, even gender itself. Further, Sade reveals the potential of sexuality if it is explored in a form of eroticism that largely transgresses behavior constructed as normal: his writings open up new forms of existence, where, contrary to prevailing ideas, woman’s sexual freedom is claimed as equal to man’s, where genders are unstable and heterosexuality no longer the standard. In this essay, I argue that Sade paradoxically emerges as an ethical model in Beauvoir’s text: as a writer, he assumes the ambiguity of the human condition in the extreme. While earlier scholars addressed the ethico-political implications of Beauvoir’s essay, they insisted that the ambiguity so fundamental in her philosophy is denied by the Sadean hero, and that the Other can never be attained in his system. In particular, Beauvoir’s insistence on Sade as a “great moralist” seems hard to reconcile with her emphasis, in The Ethics of Ambiguity, on the interdependency of human beings and her exhortation to us to promote other people’s freedom, as well as the aspiration of The Second Sex to equal relations between the genders. After all, she took 10 years between “Lovers Rock” and “Soldier of Love,” and eight years between “Love Deluxe” and “Lovers Rock.”Ĭlearly, she likes to take her sweet time, and if anyone is allowed to move at her own chill pace amidst all the stresses of the world, it’s Sade.This paper examines Simone de Beauvoir’s reading of the eighteenth century writer and libertine Marquis de Sade, in her essay “Must we Burn Sade?” a difficult and bewildering text, both in pure linguistic terms and philosophically. Of course, it would be sweet to have some new Sade music after all these years, so let’s keep hope alive. There’s “I Will Be Your Friend” and “Sally” on “Diamond Life,” “Jezebel” and “Fear” on “Promise,” “Haunt Me” and “Keep Looking” on “Stronger Than Pride,” “I Couldn’t Love You More” and “Pearls” on “Love Deluxe.” There are songs like these on every Sade album that are like Xanax for the soul and spirit. Sade Redfernsīeyond the hits - which have aged like a fine Bordeaux - digging into the deep cuts from 1984’s “Diamond Life,” 1985’s “Promise,” 1988’s “Stronger Than Pride,” 1992’s “Love Deluxe,” 2000’s “Lovers Rock” and “Soldier of Love” has been a soothing escape from the walls I’ve been climbing - and the craziness that’s been lurking all around. How else to explain how she has wrapped me up in her tender, tranquilizing embrace when I desperately needed a hug - but social distancing was blocking any of that madness. Now, with the arrival of “This Far” - a career-spanning vinyl box set of all six of Sade’s studio albums - she is, to quote “Your Love Is King,” the ruler of my heart. ![]() It’s been 10 years since Sade Adu - who doesn’t need a last name any more than Cher, Bono or Prince - released her last album with her namesake band, 2010’s Grammy-winning “Soldier of Love.” But the sultry soul-pop siren behind such timeless torchiness as “Paradise,” “The Sweetest Taboo” and “No Ordinary Love” has been my smooth comforter during the quarantine. My childhood brush with Sylvester Stallone as a 'Rocky II' extraĪretha may be the Queen of Soul, Madonna may be the Queen of Pop, Chaka may be the Queen of Funk and Dolly may be the Queen of Country.īut now I’m crowning Sade with her own royal title: Bow down to the Queen of Quarantine and Chill. Jonas Brothers on Broadway: 'We never thought we would get here' ![]() Missy Elliott, George Michael and Willie Nelson among 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Tina Turner showed us that black women could rock Taylor Swift rocks rowdy MetLife with hottest ticket of the 'Cruel Summer' season
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