Books & Writing

A selection of books, chapters, essays, papers, and interviews by Daniel Tutt.

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How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche

Repeater Books, January 2024

A study of Nietzsche’s reception on the left and the political consequences of his revival.

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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation

Palgrave Lacan Series

A work on psychoanalysis, family structure, and political modernity.

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Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives

Co-edited with Ramon Harvey · IIIT Press, 2023

A co-edited volume exploring contemporary ethical questions in Islamic thought.

Chapters in Books

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“Foreword” — Flowers for Marx
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“Preface” — The Sword and the Neck
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“Belonging on the Left Today: Or How to Avoid the Dissident Trap” — Underground Theory
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“Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology” — Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
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“Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero” — True Detective and Philosophy
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“Karatani for Libidinal Economy: Invariance and Praxis” — Libidinal Economies
Special Issue Journal on Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason

Ph.D. Dissertation

“Political Community in Badiou, Laclau, Nancy, and Žižek”

Committee: Professor Alain Badiou (chair), Dr. Laurence Rickels.

Essays and Papers

The Political Daydream: Freud, Aesthetics, and the Limits of “AI”
Neo-Fascism and the Ideology of Desire
The Gaza Genocide, Liberal Decadence, and the Lifting of Taboos
The Antinomies of Nietzschean-Marxism
Micro-Politics: Anti-Oedipus and the Wall of Ultra-Liberalism
Renewing Political Marxism
A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism
Matrimony and the Market

Interviews

Archive of interviews and study groups