Verlag:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up...
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This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up writing to devote himself to his 'mutism': painting made up of large coloured drawings. In time he became as famous a painter as he had been a writer and theorist. Klossowski now has two separate groups of commentators: those concerned with his writings and those with his painting, with little overlap between the two. Here, this separation is exp
Cover; Contents; Sarah Wilson Foreword: Klossowski our Contemporary; Introduction to the English-language Edition: Why a book about Pierre Klossowski in 2013?A Brief Biography; Introduction; Klossowski as Reader; Sade: Evil, Perversion; Nietzsche: The Same, The Stimmung; Body, Currency, Utopia; Roberte: Exchanging the Unexchangeable; The Violence of the Gaze; Conclusion: Inhuman Diana; Judith Miller Mutation: Interview with Pierre Klossowski; A. R. Price Translator's Postface
