Description
Product ID: | 9781472508591 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Living Currency |
Authors: | Author: Pierre Klossowski, Vernon W. Cisney, Dr Nicolae Morar, Daniel W. Smith |
Page Count: | 144 |
Subjects: | Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy, from c 1900 - |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker. ''I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.'' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970.Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski''s La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker. |
Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-04-06 |