num_pages: 240
description: 'The greatest book of philosophy I have ever read, on a par with Nietzsche himself.' --Michel FoucaultPierre Klossowski (1905-2001) is the author of numerous philosophical works, as well as several novels. He published many translations of German poets and philosophers, including Nietzsche himself.Recognized as a masterpiece of Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle emphasises and explores the notion of Eternal Return - central to an understanding of Nietzsche's self-denial, self-refutation and self-consumption.Translated by Daniel W. Smith
language: English
title: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
titlecomplete: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Criticism, Biography, Theory, Philosophy, Essays, France, French Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 284
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic