Reaction and Revolution: Responses to Domenico Losurdos 'Nietzsche'

Published: Sept. 3, 2021, 8 a.m.

b'Join us for a discussion marking the paperback release of Domenico Losurdo\\u2019s monumental study of Friedrich Nietzsche.\\n----------------------------------------------------\\n\\nRecently translated into English by Gregor Benton, Losurdo\\u2019s book is epic in scope, covering a wide range of philosophical and historical issues that not only situate Nietzsche in his 19th century context, but addresses some of the most burning theoretical and political issues of our times. Losurdo\\u2019s Nietzsche represents one of the greatest examples of Marxist scholarship and criticism, and we will discuss the book\\u2019s significance for not only how we see Nietzsche, but how we understand socialist theory today. Losurdo\\u2019s Nietzsche shows us that the problems of the 19th century are not over yet.\\n----------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nHarrison Fluss received his PhD in philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is a professor at Manhattan College, NYC and wrote the introduction to the English edition of Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel.\\n\\nBenjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester. He is the author of The Persistence of the Negative, Malign Velocities, and the forthcoming The Matter of Language.\\n\\nTijana Oki\\u0107 holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She is a longstanding activist of the \\u201cCommittee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt\\u201d (CADTM), and is the editor of \\u201cThe Lost Revolution: Yugoslav Women\\u2019s Antifascist Front between Myth and Forgetting.\\u201d Her research includes issues of German Idealism, contemporary French philosophy, feminist philosophy, Marxism, the history of race and ethnicity, and the problems of memory in Yugoslav history.\\n\\nDaniel Tutt has degrees from American University and the European Graduate School. He is the author of the forthcoming book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiationwith the Palgrave Lacan Series. His research is concerned with the intersection of contemporary politics, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. You can read his review of Losurdo\\u2019s Aristocratic Rebel entitled \\u201cNietzsche in His Time: The Struggle Against Socratism and Socialism\\u201d on the Historical Materialism website.\\n----------------------------------------------------\\n\\nOrder a copy of Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel: \\nhttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1565-nietzsche-the-aristocratic-rebel\\n----------------------------------------------------\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/2sTqD62y2Do\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'