Pierre Klossowski: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969–) [FR, ES, EN]

“Long recognized as a masterpiece of Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle is made available here for the first time in English. Taking a structuralist approach to the relation between Nietzsche’s thought and his life, Pierre Klossowski emphasizes the centrality of the notion of Eternal Return (a cyclical notion of time and history) for understanding Nietzsche’s propensities for self-denial, self-refutation, and self-consumption.

Nietzsche’s ideas did not stem from personal pathology, according to Klossowski. Rather, Nietzsche made a pathological use of his best ideas, anchoring them in his own fluctuating bodily and mental conditions. Thus Nietzsche’s belief that questions of truth and morality are at base questions of power and fitness resonates dynamically and intellectually with his alternating lucidity and delirium.”

Publisher Mercure de France, Paris, 1969
Revised edition, 1978
367 pages

English edition
Translated by Daniel W. Smith
Publisher by University of Chicago Press, 1997
ISBN 0226443876, 9780226443874
282 pages

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Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux (French, 1969/1978, 5 MB, added on 2015-3-7)
Nietzsche y el circulo vicioso (Spanish, trans. Roxana Páez, 1995)
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (English, trans. Daniel W. Smith, 1997, 4 MB, updated on 2019-11-22)

See also Geoff Waite’s Nietzsche’s Corps/e (1996).

Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth (eds.): The Affect Theory Reader (2010)

This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect—those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought, and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores “cruel optimism,” Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat, and Elspeth Probyn examines shame, they, along with the other contributors, show how an awareness of affect is opening up exciting new insights in disciplines from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and psychology to philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. In essays diverse in subject matter, style, and perspective, the contributors demonstrate how affect theory illuminates the intertwined realms of the aesthetic, the ethical, and the political as they play out across bodies (human and non-human) in both mundane and extraordinary ways. They reveal the broad theoretical possibilities opened by an awareness of affect as they reflect on topics including ethics, food, public morale, glamor, snark in the workplace, and mental health regimes. The Affect Theory Reader includes an interview with the cultural theorist Lawrence Grossberg and an afterword by the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart. In the introduction, the editors suggest ways of defining affect, trace the concept’s history, and highlight the role of affect theory in various areas of study.

Contributors: Sara Ahmed, Ben Anderson, Lauren Berlant, Lone Bertelsen, Steven D. Brown, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Anna Gibbs, Melissa Gregg, Lawrence Grossberg, Ben Highmore, Brian Massumi, Andrew Murphie, Elspeth Probyn, Gregory J. Seigworth, Kathleen Stewart, Nigel Thrift, Ian Tucker, Megan Watkins

Publisher Duke University Press, 2010
ISBN 0822347768, 9780822347767
416 pages

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Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization journal (2001-2012)

Ephemera is the free journal for the discussion of theoretical and political perspectives on all aspects of organization; supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.

Editorial collective: Anna-Maria Murtola, Armin Beverungen, Bent Meier Sørensen, Casper Hoedemaekers, Chris Land, Kate Kenny, Lena Olaison, Martyna Sliwa, Michael Pedersen, Nick Butler, Peter Svensson, Sara Louise Muhr, Stephen Dunne, Stevphen Shukaitis, Sverre Spoelstra
ISSN 2052-1499

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vol 12, no 4 (nov 2012) — The commons and their im/possibilities
vol 12, no 3 (aug 2012) — Professions at the margins
vol 12, no 1-2 (may 2012) — The atmosphere business
vol 11, no 4 (nov 2011) — Work, play and boredom
vol 11, no 3 (aug 2011) — The effect of affect
vol 11, no 2 (may 2011) — Governing work through self-management
vol 11, no 1 (feb 2011) — Authenticity
vol 10, no 3/4 (nov 2010) — Digital labour: Workers, authors, citizens
vol 10, no 2 (may 2010) — The state of things
vol 10, no 1 (feb 2010) — The excellent institution
vol 9, no 4 (nov 2009) — The university of finance
vol 9, no 3 (aug 2009) — Throwing shoes…
vol 9, no 2 (may 2009) — Project management behind the façade
vol 9, no 1 (feb 2009) — ‘No we can’t’: Crisis as chance
vol 8, no 4 (nov 2008) — Practical Criticism and the Social Sciences of Management
vol 8, no 3 (aug 2008) — University, Failed
vol 8, no 2 (may 2008) — Alternatively
vol 8, no 1 (feb 2008) — Symptoms of Organization
vol 7, no 4 (nov 2007) — Always Elsewhere
vol 7, no 3 (aug 2007) — Local Solidarity
vol 7, no 2 (may 2007) — Marginal Competencies
vol 7, no 1 (feb 2007) — Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored
vol 6, no 4 (nov 2006) — Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms
vol 6, no 3 (aug 2006) — América Latina / Latin America
vol 6, no 2 (may 2006) — Organizing between a rock and a hard place
vol 6, no 1 (feb 2006) — In Times, in and as Global Conflict
vol 5, no X (dec 2005) — Web of Capturing the Moving Mind
vol 5, no 4 (nov 2005) — Inscribing Organized Resistance
vol 5, no 3 (aug 2005) — Unwrapped: Let’s Get Out of Here
vol 5, no 2 (may 2005) — The Organisation and Politics of Social Forums
vol 5, no 1 (feb 2005) — Writing:Labour
vol 4, no 4 (nov 2004) — Paid in Full? Writing Beyond the Pale
vol 4, no 3 (aug 2004) — Theory of the Multitude
vol 4, no 2 (may 2004) — No Critique
vol 4, no 1 (feb 2004) — Handle with Care
vol 3, no 4 (nov 2003) — silent sounds
vol 3, no 3 (aug 2003) — Images of Organization
vol 3, no 2 (may 2003) — From…To…
vol 3, no 1 (feb 2003) — Exhibiting
vol 2, no 4 (nov 2002) — Hors d’oeuvre
vol 2, no 3 (aug 2002) — After Organization Studies
vol 2, no 2 (may 2002) — Writing Politics
vol 2, no 1 (feb 2002) — Vorsprung durch Technik?
vol 1, no 4 (nov 2001) — Responding: To Cooper
vol 1, no 3 (aug 2001) — It Appears that Certain Aphasiacs…
vol 1, no 2 (may 2001) — O cursèd spite
vol 1, no 1 (feb 2001) — Castles Made of Sand

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