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 Encounter

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

BRAND NEW Eridanos FIRST EDITION softcover 1988, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201512272 Klossowski's combinatin of theological, metaphysical,eroticism and irony is well worked in this page turner of Templar myth. Klossowski's fanciful concept of the "breaths" of Templars long past gathering on the anniversary of the torment and execution of their Grand Master and revisiting the very iniquities and blasphemies that they were force to admit to by a corrupt church and government. The mystical journey Klossowski takes his readers on is pure thrill. You will meet the Grand Master as a hornet, Nietzsche in the body of an anteater, the author himself as the confessor and a cast worthy of a Fellini movie. Foucault said that: "The theory of the 'breaths' in Klossowski's Baphomet is related, for who knows how many aspects, to the entirety of Western philosophy". We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.) 3

The Baphomet (Eridanos Library)

History & Criticism

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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)

The Baphomet (Eridanos Library)