Abstract

The subject of this paper is to explore the works of the Marquis de Sade's erotic utopia ideology. French Enlightenment can be said that the golden age of utopian thinking, this period thinkers believe that human beings under the guidance of reason, should be out of ignorance, to establish a more ideal and well-being of society. Therefore, through the fictional world, writer, and build a more ideal than real community. However, Sade's utopian novel is a brutal concentration camp, only those who meet the personal desires of debauchery space, rather than to create a more happy and harmonious society. Sade's utopian ideology can be said to be some kind of "anti-Enlightenment" thinking, because the philosophy of the Enlightenment with Sade "reform optimism" concept is completely the opposite. Sad really want to build a utopian society is a crime, or of the Republic . He wanted to build was an act in full accordance to the small community of human nature: completely by moral or legal constraints or punishment. In this paper, the spatial confinement and the "evil" utopia of these two different angles, tackling Suo Sade described the "erotic utopia" and "anti-Enlightenment" relationship. This paper is meant to inquire the thought about the erotic republic in the works of Marquis de Sade. It is fair to say that the time of the French Enlightenment was the golden age of utopianism, when the thinkers believed that human beings, guided by reason , could walk away from ignorance and construct a better and happier society. Therefore, through the fictional world of novels, the literary writers conceived a better society than the real one. Yet, the utopia in the novels of Marquis de Sade was a ruthless concentration camp, a space for the debauchees to indulge their own desires rather than create a happier and more harmonious society. Sade's utopianism was a sort of anti-enlightenment, since he was totally opposite to the ideas of reformist optimism as part of Enlightenment philosophy. The utopian society that Sade had in mind was actually a criminal or sexual republic. He wanted to build a small society where human nature was the norm as nobody was conditioned or punished by morality or law. From the two different perspectives, the enclosed space and the "evil" utopia, we try to investigate the relationship between "erotic utopia" and "anti-enlightenment" in Sade's writings