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Title: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski, Daniel W. Smith ISBN: 0-226-44387-6 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a long overdue translation
Comment: For a long time this was the most important book on Nietzsche in French that had NOT been transalted into English. So this transaltion is doubly welcome for its tardiness in arriving. This is not an introduction to Nietzsche that makes his thought accessible or understandable by putting Nietzsche's writings into some explanatory context of other philosophical movements . Rather, it attempts to show just how strange, unique, and disorienting Nietzsche's thought can be. Read this book and you'll appreciate the degree to which attempts to "make sense" of Nietzsche invariably tend to simplify, and thereby distort, his thought - they fail to grapple with Nietzche's virulence and indigestibility.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Truly Frightening Book
Comment: I picked my title for this review before I located the best reason for thinking so on page 131, which mentions the history of the link between philosophy and the politics of those who demystify "only in order to mystify better. Although this programme was initially tied to the exercise of power, it here becomes a rule of thought, a metaphysical conception . . . It is not simply a matter of destroying the notions of the true and the false; it also concerns the entrance of obscure forces on to the stage through the moral ruin of the intellect." I read this book as a way of approaching an understanding of the politics of a superpower which is dedicated to keeping its strategic thinking truly nukers, but I appreciated the book more for the frank realization of the pain involved in facing such a dismal philosophy realistically. Nietzsche admitted this most clearly in a letter which he wrote to Gast on 5 October 1879, "I have reasons for fidelity here, for 'behind thought stands the devil' of a tormenting attack of pain." (p. 18) The letters printed from pages 16 to 22 in the chapter on "The Origin of a Semiotic Impulse" are outstanding. On a lighter note, I could play games with the index, where "Jokes" would appear, but it wouldn't be nice for those involved if I pointed out that there aren't any entries between . . . (this would have been funnier if there was an entry for the Joint Chiefs of Staff). There are a lot of entries for "monstrosity," though. Using the index entry for absurdity leads to the assurance that there are some limits which really ought to be observed, because "formations of sovereignty cannot claim to exercise the absurd as violence--if they do not assign themselves a meaning--a meaning in which servitude, the subjected forces, would participate-- and this meaning can never be that of pure absurdity." (p. 119) In short, it is possible to read this book, but it is hardly likely to be edifying unless the reader is deeply vexed and willing to surrender a lot of the sense that a simple circle could pretty much sum up everything, or put things in their respective places and keep them there.
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Title: Sade My Neighbor (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential philosophy) by Pierre Klossowski, Alphonso Lingis ISBN: 0810109581 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson ISBN: 0231056699 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Baphomet by Pierre Klossowski, Sophie Hawkes, Stephen Sartarelli ISBN: 1568860560 Publisher: Marsilio Pub Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Korman, Duncan Large, Sarah Kofman ISBN: 0804721866 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski, Shelley Frisch ISBN: 0393323803 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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