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• Ambiguity and the Absolute Frank Chouraqui, 2014

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui Year: 2014 (Fordham University Press, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy series; ISBN 978-0-8232-5411-8; John D. Caputo, series editor) Type: Book (monograph)

• Asymptotic Intentionality

  Frank Chouraqui's technical term (borrowed from Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus) for the structure of intentionality shared by Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: a linear movement structured by two end-points it never reaches but approaches in…

• Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche, 2014

  Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1886 (this edition 2014) · Type: book

• Chouraqui's Interpretive Bet and the Recursive Paradox

  Question: What question would an opponent ask after reading Ambiguity and the Absolute that Chouraqui would have the hardest time answering?

• Circulus Vitiosus Deus

  Nietzsche's phrase from Beyond Good and Evil §56 — "Well? And wouldn't this then be — circulus vitiosus deus?" — asking whether the mysterious desire to think "down to the depths of pessimism" might itself be a return to an opposite ideal,…

• Circulus Vitiosus Deus: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Ontology Frank Chouraqui, 2016

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University) Year: 2016 Type: Journal article (Studia Phaenomenologica XVI, pp. 469–487)

• Daniel W. Smith

  Daniel W. Smith is the translator of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (English edition, Athlone / University of Chicago Press, 1997) and a noted scholar of Deleuze and twentieth-century French philosophy. His Translator…

• Das Man (The They)

  Heidegger's name for the Wer (who) of everyday Dasein — not a sociological aggregate or "the masses" but an Existenzial: a structural-existential feature of how Dasein is. "Jeder ist der Andere und Keiner er selbst. Das Man, mit dem sich d…

• Dasein

  Heidegger's technical term — coined as a reiner Seinsausdruck (pure being-expression) — for the entity we ourselves each are, distinguished from all other entities by the fact that its own being is at issue for it. Dasein is not "human bei…

• Don Beith

  Philosopher specializing in Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology of nature, and the philosophy of embodiment. Author of The Birth of Sense: Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy (Ohio University Press, 2018), which develops the concep…

• Emmanuel Alloa

  Contemporary continental philosopher specializing in phenomenology, aesthetics, and the legacy of Merleau-Ponty. On the wiki, Alloa is principally an editorial presence: co-editor (with Chouraqui and Kaushik) of Merleau-Ponty and Contempor…

• Eternal Recurrence

  Nietzsche's thought that the same events will repeat, identically, an infinite number of times — first introduced in The Gay Science §341 (the "greatest weight") and developed through Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the notebooks, and Ecce Homo. N…

• Eugen Fink

  German phenomenologist (1905–1975), Husserl's research assistant at Freiburg from 1928 to Husserl's death in 1938; principal interpreter and developer of Husserl's late transcendental phenomenology; co-author of Husserl's Sixth Cartesian M…

• Europe as the Crisis of Play Frank Chouraqui, 2025

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter

• Europe as the Crisis of Play

  Chouraqui's hypothesis (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) about the essence of European modernity: that it is the cultural invention of seriousness, and therefore that Europe is best defined as the graveyard of play. Europe is not a…

• Fetishistic Theory of Care (Nihilism)

  Chouraqui's redescription of nihilism (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) as, "at heart, a fetishistic theory of care." On this reading, nihilism is not first a doctrine about value's absence but a doctrine about care's grounds: to c…

• Fold (Pli)

  Merleau-Ponty's figure for the ontological structure by which the multiple comes from the one without external cutting — the continuum of form and content that dissolves the dualism/monism dilemma. V&I Ch. 4 Section "Folds" (pp. ~139–141)…

• Frank Chouraqui

  French-trained, Anglophone-publishing philosopher of phenomenology (Leiden University), specialist on the structural convergence between Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the question of truth and on the formal structure of "intra-ontology" —…

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  German philosopher (1844–1900). Classical philologist by training, briefly professor at the University of Basel (1869–1879), author of a body of work spanning philology, cultural criticism, aesthetics, ethics, and — on Chouraqui's reading…

• Genealogy

  The method Nietzsche names and practices in On the Genealogy of Morality — a critical history of the descent (Herkunft) of moral values that asks not "are they true?" but "where did they come from, and what are they worth for life?" Its wa…

• Georg Lukács

  Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political figure (1885–1971); author of Die Theorie des Romans (1916), Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923 — the single most important work for MP's engagement), Der junge Hegel (19…

• Georges Bataille

  Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French philosopher, novelist, and essayist whose reading of Nietzsche — and whose conception of sovereignty, expenditure, and the sacred — formed the milieu from which Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and th…

• Gilbert Simondon

  French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…

• Good European

  Nietzsche's name for the supra-national cultural type that the homogenization of Europe is producing, and which he opposes to nationalism, "fatherlandishness," and the "insanity of nationality." In Beyond Good and Evil the "good Europeans"…

• Granite of Fate

  Nietzsche's figure from Beyond Good and Evil §231 for the uneducable bodily substratum of the individual — the fixed aspect of the self that all subsequent development can redirect but neither create nor erase. "Deep in us, really 'down th…

• Gregarious vs. Singular

  The opposition between the gregarious (grégaire — that which conserves the species: exchangeable, communicable, intelligible) and the singular (the cas singulier / fortuitous case — unexchangeable, mute, unintelligible) is the second of th…

• Herd Morality

  Nietzsche's name for the morality of the herd animal — the valuation that serves the preservation of the community by leveling its members, prizing obedience, compassion, and equality, and treating itself as morality as such. The central t…

• Identität und Differenz (GA 11) Martin Heidegger, 2006

  Author: Martin Heidegger · Year: 2006 (GA edition; texts 1949–1963) · Editor: Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann · Type: book (Sammelband)

• Incorporation of Truth

  Nietzsche's term (Einverleibung der Wahrheit) for the method by which the knowledge that truth is falsification is converted from an intellectual item into embodied, instinctive orientation. Introduced in The Gay Science (§§11, 110), the p…

• Intra-Ontology (Indirect Ontology)

  Merleau-Ponty's method-concept for an ontology that does not stand outside Being to describe it but operates within it — "Being in the beings." MP's formulation from the February 1959 V&I working note: "One cannot make a direct ontology. M…

• Jean-François Lyotard

  French philosopher (1924–1998); phenomenologist-turned-figural-theorist and later theorist of the "postmodern condition." For the purposes of this wiki he is primarily relevant as Carbone's interlocutor on the ontology of the screen — the…

• Karl Marx

  German philosopher, economist, and political theorist (1818–1883); co-author with Friedrich Engels of The Communist Manifesto (1848); author of Capital (Vol. I 1867), the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (published 1932), The G…

• Marie-Eve Morin

  Canadian philosopher (Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta), comparative continental ontologist. Editorial Advisory Board of the New Perspectives in Ontology series (Edinburgh University Press). Editor of Continental Realism and…

• Master and Slave Morality

  Nietzsche's typology of two value-creating types, given its locus classicus in Beyond Good and Evil §260: "There is master-morality and slave-morality." Master morality arises "under a dominating type" that feels itself "value-determining……

• Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle Pierre Klossowski, 1997

  Author(s): Pierre Klossowski (trans. Daniel W. Smith) · Year: 1969 (Fr.) / 1997 (Eng.) · Type: book

• Nietzsche I Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (lectures: 1936/37, 1937, 1939; Vorwort: May 1961) Type: Lecture course (three courses; published Neske 1961, GA 6.1 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1996)

• Nietzsche II Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (compositions: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944-46; published Neske 1961, GA 6.2 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1997) Type: Hybrid (lecture course + Abhandlungen + genealogical sketches + methodological meditation)

• Nihilism

  Nihilism is one of the corpus's most-cited terms and was, until now, one of its few un-homed HUB motifs — because three ingested traditions use the word for structurally different things. For Nietzsche, nihilism is the will to nothingness:…

• On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche, 2014

  Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche · Year: 1887 · Type: book (polemic — Eine Streitschrift)

• Perspectivism

  Nietzsche's thesis that all knowing and valuing is perspectival, interpretive, and falsifying — there is no view from nowhere, no "facts" that are not already interpretations, and the value of truth is itself a perspectival valuation rathe…

• Phantasm

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, the phantasm (phantasme) is "an obsessional image produced instinctively from the life of the impulses" (Translator's Preface §4) — an involuntary formation that arises from the comb…

• Phantom Limb

  Merleau-Ponty's central case in Part One of Phenomenology of Perception for the irreducibility of bodily being to either objective causality (physiology) or cogitation (psychology). The amputee experiences the missing limb as present — can…

• Phenomenon of Truth

  Frank Chouraqui's technical term for what survives the critique of truth: not any truth-content, but the compelling experience of reality as real that makes truth-claims meaningful at all. "Belief in X is a taking-X-to-be-true, and a takin…

• Philosopher of the Future

  Nietzsche's counter-figure to the scholar and the dogmatist: the value-creating legislator announced throughout Beyond Good and Evil (subtitled Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future). Where "philosophical laborers after the noble model of…

• Pierre Klossowski

  Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a French novelist, essayist, translator, and painter whose Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969) is one of the most influential and idiosyncratic readings of Nietzsche in twentieth-century European thoug…

• Ressentiment

  Nietzsche's name (kept in French, untranslated, throughout On the Genealogy of Morality) for the creative, value-positing reaction of the impotent — the psychological engine of the slave revolt in morality. Its definition is the hinge of t…

• Sein und Zeit Martin Heidegger, 1967

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger · Year: 1927 (this edition 1967) · Type: book (an Abhandlung first published as Sonderdruck from Husserl's Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, Bd. VIII)

• Sein zum Tode (Being-toward-Death)

  Heidegger's name for Dasein's existential-ontological relation to its own end — not a future event but a structural possibility that pervades Dasein's being as long as it exists. "Der Tod als Ende des Daseins ist die eigenste, unbezügliche…

• Self-Differentiation

  Frank Chouraqui's unifying term for the structure shared by Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: the ability of reality to present itself as different from what it is, thereby — paradoxically — revealing its structure as self-differentiation. For…

• Self-Falsification (Being as)

  The ontological thesis of Chouraqui 2014: Being is not an entity that falsifies itself; Being is self-falsification. That is, Being is the movement by which pre-objective experience transforms itself into metaphysical error — by which the…

• Semiotic of Impulses

  The semiotic of impulses is the organizing concept of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (its longest chapter is titled "The Valetudinary States at the Origin of a Semiotic of Impulses"). The impulses (impulsions) are "in…

• Shadow Philosophy

  The hermeneutic and critical method by which a thinker is read through the unthought philosophy within his thought — not the explicit doctrine the thinker states, but the other philosophy implied by his statements that he himself did not t…

• Simulacrum

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, the simulacrum (simulacre; Ger. Trugbild) is the willed reproduction of a phantasm — "the actualization of something in itself incommunicable and nonrepresentable: the phantasm in it…

• Sorge (Care)

  Heidegger's name for the Strukturganzes (structural totality) of Dasein: the unified threefold structure of Sich-vorweg-schon-sein-in-(einer Welt-) als Sein-bei (innerweltlich begegnendem Seienden) — "being-ahead-of-itself-being-already-in…

• Soul as Subject-Multiplicity

  Nietzsche's constructive critique of the subject in Beyond Good and Evil: the "I" of "I think" is a grammatical fiction, but the right response is not to abolish the soul — it is to re-engineer it as a plurality. §12 is decisive: the Chris…

• The Agent (suppôt)

  The agent is Daniel W. Smith's rendering of Klossowski's suppôt — a term retrieved from scholastic philosophy (Latin suppositum, "that which is placed under," linked to substantia and subjectum) and applied to a Nietzschean problem. In Nie…

• The Body and Embodiment: A Philosophical Guide Frank Chouraqui, 2021

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui Year: 2021 Type: book (philosophical guide / textbook, Rowman & Littlefield)

• The Mask

  In Beyond Good and Evil the mask is both a recurrent theme and the book's own method. "All that is profound loves a mask" (§40); "Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, a mask is continuously growing around every profound spirit th…

• The Play-Element (Huizinga)

  Johan Huizinga's concept (from Homo Ludens, 1938), as deployed by Chouraqui in "Europe as the Crisis of Play" (2025): play is the primary, unitary "mental continuum" out of which civilization gradually carves the separated modes of playful…

• The Vicious Circle as a Selective Doctrine

  The longest and most politically charged chapter of Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle reads the Eternal Return not only as a lived experience but as a selective doctrine — "a means of training and selection" (Nietzsche's…

• Tonality of the Soul

  The tonality of the soul (tonalité de l'âme) is Pierre Klossowski's term — retained by Daniel W. Smith as "tonality" because the usage "is as unusual in French as it is in English" (Translator's Preface §3) — for the fluctuating intensitie…

• Valetudinary States

  In Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, Nietzsche's valetudinary states — his recurrent, incapacitating illness (the migraine/convalescence cycles of roughly 1877–1881, with their alternations of collapse and euphoric luci…

• Will to Power

  Nietzsche's name for the essential character of reality: "the world is will to power, and that alone" (BGE 36). In Nietzsche's texts it names at once a psychological principle (drives seeking their discharge), a biological principle (life…

• Zeitlichkeit (Temporality)

  Heidegger's name for the ekstatic-horizonal originary time that is the ontological sense of Sorge — the structural totality of Dasein. "Zeitlichkeit enthüllt sich als der Sinn der eigentlichen Sorge" (Sein und Zeit § 65, H. 326). Zeitlichk…