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Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Fortuitous Body

Abstract Pierre Klossowski's reading of Nietzsche and specifically of the Doctrine of Eternal Return is decisive for the critique of representation and identity which occurs in France during the post-war years. Such a critique attempts to think difference or alterity in a way which overturns the primacy of self-identity and the sameness of the Same. This article analyses the paradoxical (a-)logic which underpins the 'bodily' as it emerges in Klossowski's later writing on Nietzsche. It highlights the originality of Klossowski's contribution to what one might call a post-Nietzschean thinking of the body. The emphasis he places on motifs of simulation and falsification inaugurates a mode of writing in which the 'bodily' is affirmed as the paradoxical condition of possibility and impossibility of writing itself. This paradoxical logic suspends the principle of identity. As Klossowski reads Nietzsche the identity and self-identity of the human body is called into question and, with this, the identity of concepts, writing and indeed of the proper names 'Nietzsche' and 'Klossowski'.