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  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.; New Ed edition (7 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826477194
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826477194
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
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'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.

Recognised 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

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'The greatest book of philosophy I have ever read, on a par with Nietzsche himself.' Michel Foucault

'A profound Commentary on Nietzsche.' Gilles Deleuze

Nietzsche & the Vicious Circle examines the relation between Nietzsche's thought and life, emphasizing the centrality of the notion of the Eternal Return (of the cycles of time and history) for understanding Nietzsche's propensities for self-denial, self-refutation and self-consumption.

Klossowski argues that Nietzsche's ideas did not stem from personal pathology; rather, 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 of truth and morality are at base questions of power and fitness resonates dynamically and intellectually with his alternating lucidity and delirium.

Pierre Klossowski is the author of numerous works of philosophy and several novels. He has also published many translations of German poets and philosophers, including the works of Nietzsche.

Daniel W. Smith, the translator of this volume, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Part of the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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By Mr. TJP Mcmahon "thomas" (thomas) - See all my reviews
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This is an extremely valuable book for students of Nietzsche. Particularly recommended are the exposition of the eternal return - as a thought that selects the best, and as the thought that transcends the illusion of conscious goals (or allows its transcendence)- and the excavation of Nietzsche's last letters for threads of his earlier thought. The book treats Nietzsche's thinking pathologically, in such a way as he intended to write himself - of himself and of others.

A reservation: Klossowski may go off the rails in considering Nietzschean tropes and modern societies. For example, he takes what appears to be a Marxist-influenced position on the modern age: there is a 'strangeness' to modern society for all its inhabitants (alienation, surely is the idea here). Klossowski claims this is not accounted for in Nietzsche's distinction between overmen and the last men - masters and sensually-satisfied drones. This seems suspiciously like an attempt to sneak in a slave morality - a concern for the plight of the masses - and to say that Nietzsche's problematic could only be solved in a world where such strangeness was overcome by all. I doubt very much whether the 'strangeness' is a phenomenon Nietzsche would wish to recognize, relying as it seems to on a materialistic view of our experience. I'm not sure that his idea of the increasing perfection of the pleasure-economy could not account for such a phenomenon were it to exist (outside of ressentiment-filled bourgeois, bourgeois-hating intellectuals). I certainly do not think he would give two hoots for the plight of the 'rabble'. One has to be aware of the spread of the Marxist sickness after the liberation in France.

Nonetheless, this is a fantastic book. The influence of Bataille and Bergson is evident in places, and students will see some Deleuzian concerns appearing here. (There are moments when one suspects that some Deleuzian ideas are translations of Klossowski's. In particular, the explication of the will to power early in the book seemed to me to be an example of this.) I can not recommend this highly enough for all those with a passion for Nietzsche.
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