How to Read Like a Parasite - Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche (New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Repeater Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2023
Authors:	Daniel Tutt
Dimensions:	197 x 130mm (L x W)
Pages:	366
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-914420-62-7
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-914420-62-4
Barcode:	9781914420627

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