...This chapter examines the influence of French writer Pierre Klossowski on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, explaining that Klossowski is a recurring point of reference for Deleuze, who repeatedly cited him as a key figure in the contemporary French reception of Nietzschean philosophy from 1966...

...., Nietzsche’s eternal return, is the necessary prerequisite for opening up the subject and referring it to the realm of Ideas. The chapter illustrates this relation by looking at how Deleuze makes use of Pierre Klossowski’s account of Nietzsche as a thinker of the eternal return. Condition s transcendental...

... Heidegger Martin Benjamin Walter Eternal Return Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Gift exchange Pierre Klossowski Jean-François Lyotard Jacques Derrida Aneconomy Eulogising in the immediate aftermath of his contemporary's suicide in 1995, Jacques Derrida describes ‘the flustering, really flustering...