Living Currency [Hardcover]

'I should have written you after my first reading ofThe 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 Currencyis the first English translation of Klossowski'sLa 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.

Pierre Klossowski(1905-2001) was a French philosopher, translator, and artist.

Vernon W. Cisneyis a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author ofDerrida'sVoice and Phenomenon:An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide(2014), as well asDeleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative(2017).

Nicolae Moraris Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and an Associate Member of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. He is currently writing a book entitledBiology, BioEthics, and BioPolitics: How to Think Differently About Human Nature.

Daniel W. Smithis Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author ofEssays on Deleuze(Edinburgh 2012) and also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres.

[A] good book that advances a key to understanding Klossowski's literary and visual relationship to the exploited and monetized body & [It] is thoroughly enjoyable for those who possess a keen interest in Klossowski's written and visual works. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics

Michel Foucault calledLiving Currencythe greatest book of our time  insofar as it provided conceptual resources that would allow French thinking to move from Bataló&