Pierre Klossowski 1905 – 2001
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
Pierre Klossowski was a French philosopher, novelist, translator, and visual artist, the elder brother of the painter Balthus, and one of the strangest figures of mid-twentieth-century French thought. His Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle developed a singular reading of the eternal return as a doctrine of the simulacrum and of the dissolution of the unity of the self, while his Sade My Neighbor read the Marquis de Sade as a thinker of perversion and atheology rather than as a mere libertine. Around the journal Acephale and his friendship with Bataille, Blanchot, and Foucault, he made fantasy, parody, and theological imagination instruments of philosophical inquiry.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Post-Structuralism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Pierre Klossowski:
“The eternal return is not a doctrine; it is a sign that ruins every doctrine.”
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Attributed to Pierre Klossowski:
“The self is not a substance but a fluctuating intensity among other intensities.”
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Attributed to Pierre Klossowski:
“To live is to bear the simulacra that traverse us.”
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Attributed to Pierre Klossowski:
“Sade is not the celebrant of vice; he is its theologian.”
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Attributed to Pierre Klossowski:
“Solitude is the medium in which the soul exchanges itself for its phantasms.”
Frequently asked about Pierre Klossowski
- When did Pierre Klossowski live?
- Pierre Klossowski was born in 1905 and died in 2001.
- Where was Pierre Klossowski from?
- Pierre Klossowski was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Pierre Klossowski associated with?
- Pierre Klossowski was associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
- What was Pierre Klossowski known for?
- Pierre Klossowski was a French philosopher, novelist, translator, and visual artist, the elder brother of the painter Balthus, and one of the strangest figures of mid-twentieth-century French thought.
- How many quotes are attributed to Pierre Klossowski?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Pierre Klossowski in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.