Living Currency
Description
'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.
Product Details
Price
$25.95
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publish Date
May 04, 2017
Pages
144
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.7 X 0.3 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781472508591
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About the Author
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.Reviews
"[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
