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• 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…

• Homoclite / Heteroclite

  Foucault's terms — in Les Mots et les choses (MC 9/xvii) and Le souci de soi — generalized by Leonard Lawlor (Ch 2 of Thinking through French Philosophy) into a spatialization-of-time apparatus that maps the diffraction between Merleau-Pon…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Leonard Lawlor

  American philosopher and translator; Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University (since 2008; formerly Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, where he served from 1990–2008).…

• Mediated Unity vs. Immediate Duality

  Leonard Lawlor's most precise structural formula for the Derrida–Deleuze diffraction (Ch 8 §§II–III of Thinking through French Philosophy, summer 2001). Mediated unity (Derrida): two sides of any opposition (presence/non-presence, expressi…

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and historian of systems of thought. Author of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (1961), Naissance de la clinique (1963), Raymond Roussel (1963), Les Mots et les choses (1966), L'Archéologie du sa…

• Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle Pierre Klossowski, 1997

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

• 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…

• 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…

• Point of Diffraction

  Leonard Lawlor's central neologism (borrowed from Foucault AS 87/65 but recoded): the productive lack that generates a system of philosophical options when a generation of thinkers attempts to solve the same problem. For Lawlor the point o…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question Leonard Lawlor, 2003

  Author: Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy) · Year: 2003 · Type: book (collected essays, revised; Indiana University Press, Studies in Continental Thought series)