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Description of the Book: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
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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-consumption. Nietzsche's ideas did not stem from personal pathology, according to Klossowski. 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.
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Details of the Book: Nietzsche and the Vicious CircleAuthor: Pierre Klossowski Number Of Pages: 302 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: 0060637943 ISBN-13: 9780226443874 Language: English Amazon Sales Rank: 314761 Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Package Dimensions: 0.93 x 8.58 x 5.55 inches |
Related KeywordsBiography: general Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present Philosophy German History & Surveys - Modern Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern 1844-1900 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, |
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