Strange Educators

1. Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade: 'avec mois ce soir’.

To Socratise

Sade as Educator! Just to say it out loud is enough to register a strangeness. Rationally, I suppose, we know what this means – he clearly was interested in education; his books tell us that that is what is going on in the relation between, always, the older man and the youth – usually in Sade the youth is between 14-18 and in two of his wor…