{"product_id":"how-to-read-like-a-daniel-tutt-9781914420627","title":"How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche","description":"\u003cb\u003eA how-to guide for the left on how to overcome Nietzsche's divisive and damaging influence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Exemplary... Tutt's evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzscheans might wish.'' \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Ray Brassier, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Read Like a Parasite\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Read Like a Parasite\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Tutt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1914420624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914420627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Daniel Tutt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321623572735,"sku":"9781914420627","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dade1385-c16d-4852-9382-0f6c6a3b2e87.jpg?v=1696331850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-read-like-a-daniel-tutt-9781914420627","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}