I've finally got my hands on a copy of Pierre Klossowski's 1969 book on Nietzsche---Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle. It has been long regarded as an influential text in the late 20th century French understanding of Nietzsche.
This highly original reading of Nietzsche provides one way to understand the French Nietzsche tradition; a pathway that has its roots in Bataille's On Nietzsche.
I have to admit that I have difficulty in coming to grips with the French Nietzsche tradition: I keep on bouncing out of it. I find it very difficult to connect to my own reading of Nietzsche based on nihilism and the revaluation of all values.
You can find Daniel Smith's translator's preface here; some background on Klossowski here adn a review of Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle here.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 8, 2004 11:58 PM | TrackBack