Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs. My name is Peyton Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs

Magazine. I am joined today by Daniel Tut. He is a writer, philosopher, host of the

Emancipations podcast, and he is the author of the new book. He is here

to talk to us about today. It is how to read like a parasite, why the left got high on nature.

Available from Repeated Books Danes Todd

Welcome to Kurt Affairs

It's great to be here

Nathan, how are you today?

I'm feeling good, I'm feeling good

I'm ready to

dive in to some

19th century philosophy with you

so tell us

Nietzsche's been dead a long time

and one might wonder why it was thought by you to be of value to write an entire book, dissecting, critiquing the thought of Nietzsche.

People, let's assume, let's assume that we're speaking for listeners who have absolutely no familiarity with his writing, who have heard of him.

They've heard of him.

And they know he was a 19th century philosopher.

Maybe they've heard the word Ubermensch.

And that's about what they know.

So tell us more about why you think here in 2024 it is important to think about

and write about Nietzsche. Well, part of the argument of making the book, of course, is that we live

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