Deleuze Difference and the Virtual I read that Klossowski book a really long time ago. I remember finding it a bit hard to digest, and it's one I've been meaning to come back to. I think what I got out of it was an appreciation for just how heavily Nietzsche's psychological state left it's mark on his philosophy. What is it that keeps drawing you back? — StreetlightX
It's hard to say. Above all, I recognize the voice, something resonates. "This guy gets it" sort of thing
After that:
all the tangles and contradictions that he - Klossowski - highlights have been the same ones I got (get) hung up on. He seems to get at the core of Nietzsche, directly. Clinically, to be sure, but not without a lot of sympathy. There's no 'lifting' of decontextualized nietzschean thoughts in order to apply them to this, that, or whatever- there's a honing in on the central thing that produced them. That's cool. Nietzsche is too often seen as a pure iconoclast. That's not the case - or at least not the case in the way its usually taken. He's very much 'working-through' the culture he lives in, in that problem/solution sense. Klossowski, I think (I'm not sure) shows how the deep irritation at the center of Nietzche is: 'it's fucked up people have to deeply suffer so others can thrive, and part of 'thriving' is everything I find valuable in philosophy and philology.' That plus 'but is all my thought against thriving, just resentment at not being selected for the nicer role?' [this sounds simple obv but it gets tangled when you pull on any thread, as he did]
Everything is a matter of working out that undigestible thought, and it has its own logic. Of course it ended, as we all know, with a collapse at the feet of the turin horse.
I know this is all a tangent, but on the way to the Deleuze stuff