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.

Preface
List of Translators

1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical
2. Theology to Counter-Utopia,Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)
3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski
5. Living Currency,translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College, USA), Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon, USA) and Daniel W. Smith
6. Sade and Fourier,translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich
7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin,Paul Foss-Heimlich
8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss

Index

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 currentlÃ"