How to Read Like a Parasite

Tutt, Daniel


Engels | 29-08-2024 | 366 pagina's

9781914420627

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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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EAN :9781914420627
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Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Publicatie datum :  29-08-2024
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Status :Te bestellen
Aantal pagina's :366