{"product_id":"how-to-read-like-a-parasite-why-the-left-got-high-on-nietzsche-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\"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading.\" - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew McManus, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNietzsche and the Politics of Reaction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914420627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Daniel Tutt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251484491957,"sku":"9781914420627","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_da034aed-1c7b-4c1e-9c7a-fa246465de80.jpg?v=1699373800","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-why-the-left-got-high-on-nietzsche-9781914420627","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}