{"product_id":"9781914420627","title":"How to Read Like a Parasite","description":"\u003cb\u003eA how-to guide for the left on how to overcome Nietzsche's divisive and damaging influence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Daniel Tutt","offers":[{"title":"Watkins Media |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-01-02","offer_id":44663284007167,"sku":"9781914420627","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b401b3cd-2c2f-462d-923c-e8781c703943.jpg?v=1704532855","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781914420627","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}