Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001)

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1. Georges Bataille

   Author of Blue of Noon, Theory of Religion, On Nietzsche

2. Maurice Blanchot

   Author of The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire", Death Sentence, The Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature)

3. Pierre Klossowski

   Author of Sade My Neighbor (SPEP), Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, Diana at Her Bath/the Women of Rome

4. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of Difference and Repetition, Nietzsche and Philosophy, The Logic of Sense

5. Jacques Derrida

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6. Michel Leiris

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7. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Nietzsche, Volumes 1 & 2, Nietzsche, Volumes 3 & 4, Parmenides [GA 54]

8. Raymond Roussel

   Author of Locus Solus, Impressions of Africa, How I Wrote Certain Of My Books

9. Giorgio Agamben

   Author of The Open: Man and Animal, The Coming Community, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

10. Michel Foucault

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11. Friedrich Nietzsche

    Author of Untimely Meditations, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche: Writings from the Late Notebooks

12. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, Libidinal Economy (Continuum Impacts)

13. Jean-Luc Nancy

    Author of The Inoperative Community, The Birth to Presence

14. Julien Gracq

    Author of The Castle of Argol, A dark stranger, La Littérature à l'estomac

15. Robert Walser

    Author of Jakob von Gunten, The Robber

16. Alfred Jarry

    Author of The Supermale, Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll Pataphysician

17. Emil Cioran

    Author of The Temptation to Exist, Anathemas and Admirations

18. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

    Author of The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Crit, Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

19. Rene Crevel

    Author of Babylon, Putting My Foot in It

20. Alain Badiou

    Author of Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, The Meaning of Sarkozy