Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

by Pierre Klossowski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226443876
• ISBN13: 9780226443874
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"