One of the essential books for understanding the Marquis de Sade's place in twentieth-century philosophy, Sade My Neighbour is Pierre Klossowski's extraordinary study of transgression, desire, atheism and repetition.

First published in French in 1947, it profoundly shaped later thinkers including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Derrida, helping reposition Sade from pornographer to one of modernity's most unsettling philosophical figures.

Rather than offering literary criticism, Klossowski follows Sade's internal logic to its breaking point, exploring obsession, sovereignty, morality and the strange relationship between thought and action. With Alphonso Lingis' lucid translation and introduction, this Quartet edition remains one of the finest English-language editions and an indispensable text for readers of continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, Bataille, Deleuze or the history of transgression.

1992 Quartet Encounters paperback. English translation by Alphonso Lingis. Clean throughout with light shelf wear and a tight binding.