Description: A how-to guide for the left on how to overcome Nietzsche's divisive and damaging influence. How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged version of Nietzsche that has been made popular by generations of translators and academic philosophers who have presented his work as apolitical and without a core reactionary agenda. The central argument of the book is that Nietzsche’s philosophy does have a center, and that the left learns a great deal from Nietzsche when we read him as driven by a highly sophisticated reactionary political vision that informs all his major concepts and ideas. The most important Nietzschean concepts — from perspectivism, ressentiment, eternal return to the pathos of distance — are analyzed in the historical context in which Nietzsche lived and wrote, and several case-studies of prominent left-Nietzscheans from Jack London, Gilles Deleuze, Wendy Brown to Huey Newton are discussed. How to Read Like a Parasite makes a persuasive case for how we can overcome Nietzsche’s damaging influence on the left, showing us how to read and understand his work without becoming victims of it.
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Book Title: How to Read like a Parasite : Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche
Number of Pages: 366 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Watkins Media The Limited
Topic: Individual Philosophers, History & Theory, General, Political
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Political Science, Philosophy
Item Weight: 12.4 Oz
Author: Daniel Tutt
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
