Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

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-consumption. Nietzsche's ideas did not stem from personal pathology, according to Klossowski. Rather, he made a pathological use of his best ideas, anchoring them in his own fluctuating bodily and mental conditions. Thus Nietzsche's belief that questions of truth and morality are at base questions of power and fitness resonates dynamically and intellectually with his alternating lucidity and delirium.

Politics & Social Sciences

KLOSSOWSKI, PIERRE

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

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-consumption. Nietzsche's ideas did not stem from personal pathology, according to Klossowski. Rather, he made a pathological use of his best ideas, anchoring them in his own fluctuating bodily and mental conditions. Thus Nietzsche's belief that questions of truth and morality are at base questions of power and fitness resonates dynamically and intellectually with his alternating lucidity and delirium.

"These two novels together comprise one of the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of French fiction. On the simple level of fiction they relate to the amatory adventures of an elderly philosopher and his voluptuous young wife." [translated by Austryn Wainhouse] 214 pages.

Roberte Ce Soir, and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

GROVE PRESS

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Sade My Neighbour (Encounter)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Quartet

Roberte Ce Soir and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Literary

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Sade My Neighbor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era's union of cold technology and ancient hatreds gave rise to a dark, alternative reason--an ethic that was value-free and indifferent with regard to virtue and vice, freedom, and slavery. In a world where "the unthinkable" had become reality, it is small wonder that theorists would turn to the writings of a man whose eighteenth-century imagination preceded twentieth-century history in its unbridled exploration of viciousness, perversion, and monstrosity: the Marquis de Sade.Klossowski was one of the first philosophers in postwar Europe to ask whether Sade's reason, although aberrant and perverted to evil passions, could be taken seriously. Klossowski's seminal work inspired virtually all subsequent study of Sadean thought, including that of de Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Bataille, Blanchot, Paulhan, and Lacan.

Northwestern University Press

Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era's union of cold technology and ancient hatreds gave rise to a dark, alternative reason--an ethic that was value-free and indifferent with regard to virtue and vice, freedom, and slavery. In a world where "the unthinkable" had become reality, it is small wonder that theorists would turn to the writings of a man whose eighteenth-century imagination preceded twentieth-century history in its unbridled exploration of viciousness, perversion, and monstrosity: the Marquis de Sade. Klossowski was one of the first philosophers in postwar Europe to ask whether Sade's reason, although aberrant and perverted to evil passions, could be taken seriously. Klossowski's seminal work inspired virtually all subsequent study of Sadean thought, including that of de Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Bataille, Blanchot, Paulhan, and Lacan.

'The greatest book of philosophy I have ever read, on a par with Nietzsche himself.' --Michel Foucault
Pierre 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 - central to an understanding of Nietzsche's self-denial, self-refutation and self-consumption.
Translated by Daniel W. Smith

EPZ Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (Continuum Impacts)

Bloomsbury Academic

novel, tr Hawkes/Artarelli, foreword Foucault

The Baphomet (The Eridanos Library, 9)

Eridanos Press

Language Notes\nText: English (translation) 
Original Language: French\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nThese erudite, vigorous works by the French author of The Baphomet grapple with nothing less than the nature of divinity and creation, Eros and Thanatos. In the chimerical "Diana at Her Bath," the hunter Actaeon lacks the innocence attributed to him by legend: here, he deliberately accosts the chaste goddess as she bathes and even assaults her; here, she is both demonic and divine, assuming corporeal form in direct response to Actaeon's imaginings. Have the gods created mortals, or been created by them? Actaeon receives the classical punishment, and is elaborately deprived of the opportunity to tell of his experience by being transformed into a stag and then destroyed by his own hounds."The Women of Rome" explores eroticism as a nexus for the sacred mysteries, where the act of sex encompasses not only procreation but death and, ultimately, immortality. Less supple than "Diana," the latter piece is studded with scholarly references, like a scintillating lecture by a mercurial professor. Illustrations (by the author) not seen by PW. 
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Diana at Her Bath: The Women of Rome (Eridano's Library)

Religion & Spirituality

Marsilio Pub

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Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

Roberte Ce Soir, and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Sade My Neighbour (Encounter)

Roberte Ce Soir and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Sade My Neighbor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Sade My Neighbor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

EPZ Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (Continuum Impacts)

The Baphomet (The Eridanos Library, 9)

Diana at Her Bath: The Women of Rome (Eridano's Library)