'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970.Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.
'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970.Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a French philosopher, translator, and artist. Vernon W. Cisney is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2014), as well as Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (2017). Nicolae Morar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and an Associate Member of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. He is currently writing a book entitled Biology, BioEthics, and BioPolitics: How to Think Differently About Human Nature. Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012) and also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres.
Inhaltsangabe
PrefaceList of Translators 1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical2. Theology to Counter-Utopia, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski5. Living Currency, translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College, USA), Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon, USA) and Daniel W. Smith6. Sade and Fourier, translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich 7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin, Paul Foss-Heimlich8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss Index
Preface List of Translators 1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical 2. Theology to Counter-Utopia Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University USA) 3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski 5. Living Currency translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College USA) Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon USA) and Daniel W. Smith 6. Sade and Fourier translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich 7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin Paul Foss-Heimlich 8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss Index
PrefaceList of Translators 1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical2. Theology to Counter-Utopia, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski5. Living Currency, translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College, USA), Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon, USA) and Daniel W. Smith6. Sade and Fourier, translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich 7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin, Paul Foss-Heimlich8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss Index
Preface List of Translators 1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical 2. Theology to Counter-Utopia Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University USA) 3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski 5. Living Currency translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College USA) Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon USA) and Daniel W. Smith 6. Sade and Fourier translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich 7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin Paul Foss-Heimlich 8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss Index
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[A] good book that advances a key to understanding Klossowski's literary and visual relationship to the exploited and monetized body . [It] is thoroughly enjoyable for those who possess a keen interest in Klossowski's written and visual works. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
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