Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a French philosopher, translator, and artist. Vernon W. Cisney is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Derrida’s Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2014), as well as Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (2017).Nicolae Morar is 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 entitled Biology, BioEthics, and BioPolitics: How to Think Differently About Human Nature.Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays 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.

• PrefaceList of Translators1.Introduction: Pierre Klossowaki: From Theatrical2. Theology to Counter-Utopia, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)3. Letter from Foucault to Pierre Klossowski5. Living Currency, translated by Vernon Cisney (Gettysburg College, USA), Nicolae Morar (University of Oregon, USA) and Daniel W. Smith6. Sade and Fourier, translated by Paul Foss-Heimlich 7. Sade and Fourier and Klossowksi and Benjamin, Paul Foss-Heimlich8. Letter from Pierre Klossowski to Paul Foss Index