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Born in Paris in 1905, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Hölderlin, Kafka, Nietzsche, Benjamin) into French, worked on films and was also a painter, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. He died in 2001. 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philologist and philosopher. ... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD.  It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. ... Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), pictured here in 1930, made influential contributions to Logic and the philosophy of language, critically examining the task of conventional philosophy and its relation to the nature of language. ... Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was an influential German philosopher, best known as the author of Being and Time (1927). ... Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ... Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing — much of it incomplete, and published posthumously despite his wish that it be destroyed... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philologist and philosopher. ... Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין, Standard Binyamin Tiberian Bínyāmîn) is a Hebrew Bible figure. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

His book Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle and previous papers included within were a huge influence on French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and many others. Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ; English-speakers pronunciation varies) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. ... Gilles Deleuze (IPA: ), (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Bibliography

• (English)/(French) Sade my neighbour (Quartet Bks., 1992, ISBN 0-7043-0155-5; original French ed. Sade mon prochain, Paris, Seuil, 1947)
• (French) La Vocation suspendue (Paris: Gallimard,1950)
• (French) Un si funeste désir (Paris: Gallimard, 1963)
• (English)/(French) The Baphomet (Marsilio Pub, 1992, ISBN 0-941419-73-8 ; original French ed. Le Baphomet, Paris, Mercure de France, 1965)
• (French) Les Lois de l'hospitalité (Paris: Gallimard, 1965) (trilogy of the 'Roberte' novels: La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes (1959), Roberte ce soir (1954), and Le Souffleur (1960))
• (English)/(French) Roberte Ce Soir and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002, ISBN 1-56478-309-X
• (English)/(French) Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-44387-6; other ed. 2001 ISBN 0-485-12133-6; original version Paris, Mercure de France, 1969)
• (English)/(French) Diana at Her Bath/the Women of Rome Marsilio Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-56886-055-2 (original edition Le Bain de Diane, Paris, Gallimard, 1980)
• (French) Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) L'adolescent immortel (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) La Monnaie vivante (Paris: Gallimard, 2003)

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Translations

• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus suivi de Investigations philosophiques
• Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir

Secondary texts

• Ian James, Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Legenda, 1999)
• Leslie Hill, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

External links

• Book review and biography, by Brett Bowles
• Pierre Klossowski biography by Elena Filipovic, focussing on his drawing