How to Read Like a Parasite : Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche [1 paperback ed.] 9781915672261, 9781914420627
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Table of contents :
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
We Live in Nietzsche’s World. So What?
Finding Nietzsche, Finding Ourselves
A Janus-Faced Philosophy
Losing Nietzsche, Finding Marx
Finding Nietzsche Anew
CHAPTER TWO
Understanding Nietzsche’s Style
The Pathos of Distance: A Community-Building Concept
Prolepsis as a Device of Community-Building
Derrida and the Limits of Psychobiography
CHAPTER THREE
The Political Context of Perspectivism
Bonapartism, Then and Now
Irrationalism and Hyper-Nominalism
CHAPTER FOUR
The Center of Nietzsche’s Political Thought: A Continuous Polemic against Marxism and Socialism
The Otium Wars and the Politics of Leisure Time
The Free Spirits: An Alternative to the Proletarian Intellectual
The Godfather of Left and Right Accelerationism
CHAPTER FIVE
Nietzsche within the Left
Before the Hermeneutics of Innocence: H.L. Mencken and Jack London
Bolshevism and the Inescapability of Nietzscheanism
Deleuze’s Nietzsche: The Counterculture Rebel
Nietzsche within the Black Panthers
CHAPTER SIX
Elective Enmities: Marx and Nietzsche
Marx vs. Nietzsche I: Religion, Ideology, Suffering
Eternal Return: The First Religion of Modern Capitalism
A Pre-History of Marx vs. Nietzsche: Pascal vs. Pelagius
Marx vs. Nietzsche II: On the Cathartic Moment of Revolution
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ressentiment and the Politics of Social Suffering
Ressentiment and Christianity
Ressentiment in Neoliberal Times
Lacan, Nietzsche, and the Neo-Feudal Thesis
CHAPTER EIGHT
After Elective Affinity, or How to Read Like a Parasite
Class Emancipation and Equality
How to Read Like a Parasite
After Elective Affinity
References
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
We Live in Nietzsche’s World. So What?
Finding Nietzsche, Finding Ourselves
A Janus-Faced Philosophy
Losing Nietzsche, Finding Marx
Finding Nietzsche Anew
CHAPTER TWO
Understanding Nietzsche’s Style
The Pathos of Distance: A Community-Building Concept
Prolepsis as a Device of Community-Building
Derrida and the Limits of Psychobiography
CHAPTER THREE
The Political Context of Perspectivism
Bonapartism, Then and Now
Irrationalism and Hyper-Nominalism
CHAPTER FOUR
The Center of Nietzsche’s Political Thought: A Continuous Polemic against Marxism and Socialism
The Otium Wars and the Politics of Leisure Time
The Free Spirits: An Alternative to the Proletarian Intellectual
The Godfather of Left and Right Accelerationism
CHAPTER FIVE
Nietzsche within the Left
Before the Hermeneutics of Innocence: H.L. Mencken and Jack London
Bolshevism and the Inescapability of Nietzscheanism
Deleuze’s Nietzsche: The Counterculture Rebel
Nietzsche within the Black Panthers
CHAPTER SIX
Elective Enmities: Marx and Nietzsche
Marx vs. Nietzsche I: Religion, Ideology, Suffering
Eternal Return: The First Religion of Modern Capitalism
A Pre-History of Marx vs. Nietzsche: Pascal vs. Pelagius
Marx vs. Nietzsche II: On the Cathartic Moment of Revolution
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ressentiment and the Politics of Social Suffering
Ressentiment and Christianity
Ressentiment in Neoliberal Times
Lacan, Nietzsche, and the Neo-Feudal Thesis
CHAPTER EIGHT
After Elective Affinity, or How to Read Like a Parasite
Class Emancipation and Equality
How to Read Like a Parasite
After Elective Affinity
References
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