Praise for How to Read Like a Parasite:

“A compelling picture of the ways that Nietzscheanism hijacks the left.”
— Jan Rehmann, author of Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault

“Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading.”
— Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

“Exemplary… Tutt’s evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzscheans might wish.”
— Ray Brassier, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction

“Today, in our age of quick new Right or new Left dismissals, such a stance is needed more than ever.”
— Slavoj Žižek

“The conclusion of How to Read Like a Parasite is that a ruthless, even “parasitical” critique of Nietzsche, who cannot be ignored but must be constantly confronted head on, is the key to overcoming the destruction of reason in our time.”
— John Bellamy Foster, author of The Dialectics of Ecology

“Tutt’s book sets a new standard for understanding how to read Nietzsche from the political left.”
— Carl Sachs, author of “Nietzsche Between Scientism and Irrationalism”

Daniel Tutt is a writer, philosopher and host of the Emancipations podcast, a public learning platform that explores philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and contemporary political struggles. Trained in Marxist philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation (Palgrave Lacan Series in 2022), a book that aims to revitalize Freudian and Marxist thought for the contemporary left. He also teaches philosophy in the Washington, DC area and has offered courses at George Washington University, Marymount University, and the DC jail. 

His latest book, How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche aims to open a new reading of the philosophy of Nietzsche and how his thought has come to shape and influence the left, from the Black Panthers, to French theory, to contemporary liberal academics.