"Long recognized as a masterpiece of Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle is made available here for the first time in English. Taking a structuralist approach to the relation between Nietzsche's thought and his life, Pierre Klossowski emphasizes the centrality of the notion of Eternal Return (a cyclical notion of time and history) for understanding Nietzsche's propensities for self-denial, self-refutation, and self-co ..."
"'The greatest book of philosophy I have ever read, on a par with Nietzsche himself.' --Michel FoucaultPierre Klossowski (1905-) is the author of numerous philosophical works, as well as several novels. He published many translations of German poets and philosophers, including Nietzsche himself.Recognized as a masterpiece of Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle emphasises and explores the notion of Eternal Return - ce ..."
"Nietzsche made a pathological use of his best ideas, anchoring them in his own fluctuating bodily and mental conditions. Thus Nietzsche's belief that questions to truth and morality are at base questions of power and fitness resonates dynamically and intellectually with his alternating lucidity and delirium. The keen student of Nietzsche will welcome the appearance of this profound but extremely taxing study in a good English translatio ..."
"Long recognized as a masterpiece of Nietzsche scholarship, "Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle" is made available here for the first time in English. Taking a structuralist approach to the relation between Nietzsche's thought and his life, Klossowski emphasizes the centrality of the notion of Eternal Return (a cyclical notion of time and history) for understanding Nietzsche's propensities for self-denial, self-reputation, and self-consump ..."
"Written in the form of a disapproving monograph on an anonymous, confessional novel (itself titled The Suspended Vocation), it is the story of the hapless Jérôme, whose lust for holiness leads him astray in a cloistered world full of ..."
"This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which Georges Bataille, having spent the early Thirties in far-left groups opposing the rise of Fascism, abandoned that approach in order to transfer the struggle on to "the mythological plane". In 1937, he founded two groups in order to explore the combinations of power and the "sacred" at work in society (Bataille associated the sacred wi ..."
"'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production ..."
"'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production o ..."
Living Currency by PierreKlossowski 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-1237-6, ISBN: 1-4725-1237-5
"English translation: 'The Laughter of the Gods', in Maurice Blanchot, Friendship,
trans. Elizabeth Rotenberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 169–82.
Gilles Deleuze, 'Klossowski ou les corpslanguage', in Critique 214 (March 1965):
199– 209. English translation: 'Klossowski, or BodiesLanguage', in Gilles
Deleuze, Logic of Sense [1969], trans. Mark Lester; ed. Charles Stivale and
Constantin Boundas (New York: Columbia Uni ..."
"The present issue of Umbr(a) aims to provide a space for the elaboration of the often-uninterrogated relation between writing and psychoanalysis. For, inasmuch as psychoanalysis is inextricably linked to the speaking subject, it nevertheless finds its origins and future firmly grounded in writing. Every psychoanalyst whose training is informed by Freud's writing, every psychoanalytic critic who takes writing as his object of study, and ..."
Such a Deathly Desire(1st Edition) (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by PierreKlossowski, Russell Ford Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2007 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7196-8, ISBN: 0-7914-7196-9
"Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment. Shocking, brilliant, and eccentric, the French author, translator, and artist Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) exerted a profound effect on French intellectual culture throughout the twentieth century. The older brother of the painter Balthus, secretary to the novelist André Gide, friend to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, and heralded as one of the most im ..."
"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana). For this new edition, all 36,000 lives from the first edition have been completely rewritten or revised-with over 13,500 new biogra ..."
"Fiction. Pierre Klossowski's last novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, THE BAPHOMET was awared the Prix des Critique when first publsihed in France in 1965. The author, who has written about Sade and Nietzsche as well as the Doctors of the Church, is a spirit particularly at ease with extremes. Of him it has been said that he never ceased to keep one foot in the seminary and the other in the brothel. Translated bySophi ..."
"In this erotic, metaphysical, and theological novel, the spirits of medieval Templar monks gather on the anniversary of their Grand Master's torment and execution."