Austryn Wainhouse Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary French fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.

Il caso e la necessità è il libro che ha suscitato nel mondo scientifico e filosofico il più vasto dibattito dopo L'origine della specie di Darwin. Tradotto in quindici lingue, è dedicato non solo ai biologi, ma anche a tutti coloro che si interessano alle prospettive più originali della cultura moderna e ai rapporti delle scienze della vita con la filosofia. Se l'ambizione ultima della scienza consiste nel chiarire la relazione tra uomo e universo, la biologia tenta di raggiungere il nocciolo delle questioni relative alla natura umana. Jacques Monod, premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1965, coglie, della biologia, quei temi che ritiene possano maggiormente influire sulla cultura moderna.