DiscoverThe Nietzsche Podcast121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses
121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses

121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses

Update: 2025-10-14
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Welcome to season 6! Part I of III. In this first episode, we'll lay the groundwork for Klossowski's critical reading of Nietzsche, beginning with the material from the first two chapters. Klossowski applies Nietzsche's own methodology to Nietzsche's works, and reads his philosophy as a sign-language of impulses. The valetudinary states that dominated Nietzsche's life are reinterpreted in a radical way, with Klossowski's assertion that Nietzsche oftentimes saw thought as a source of suffering, and sided with the "attacks" of his body against the conscious, rational agent.

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121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses

121: Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, pt 1: The Semiotic of Impulses

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