It is well known that, in the conclusion to his History of Madness in the Classical Age, Michel Foucault put forward three major figures to symbolise the emergence of the “modern subject”: Sade, Goya and Nietzsche. From a perspective already opened up by Jacob Burckhardt, his aim was to pose the question of desire (with its “monsters”) in its relation to ethics (with its demands). What becomes of this relationship in the case of Sade and Goya, and of their respective uses of the imagination?

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