Draft:Daniel Tutt
Daniel Tutt (DAN-yuhl TUT) is an American writer, philosopher, and podcast host.
Early Life
[edit]Tutt was born outside Portland, Oregon. In his early years, he grew up there and elsewhere along the west coast of the United States. He was raised in a working class family which split up several times. Most of his life he was raised by his single mother and later reconciled with his estranged father in his late 20s. In his early teen years, Tutt worked several jobs including being a hod carrier, construction laborer, and a was employed in a number of sales positions.[1]
Education
[edit]Tutt went to college in a small town in Southern Oregon on a Pell Grant and student loans.
In college, it was poetry that opened up the world of thought to him. Now, however, he mostly reads and accesses the world of thought through philosophy. The first major philosopher Tutt found compelling was Nietzsche. He has said that in Nietzsche's corpus, he had "found a whole reservoir of direction and inspiration."[1] Over time, Tutt's attitude toward and understanding of Nietzsche would change drastically.
Post-College Life
[edit]After college, Tutt moved to Washington, D.C. where he found a community of activists in the area that were organizing religious groups to protest the Iraq War and to promote inter-religious relations. During this time, he and his partner lived in the patronage of a wealthy businessman in Washington, D.C. who was interested in interfaith issues.
It was while situated within this milieu that Tutt became class conscious. He has later stated:
"I began to realize that my labor situation in the world relied on receiving the financial support from paternalistic sources (completely outside of my family mind you) which had no reason to support me. We live in a society where if you are a working class person who does not have parents with money, that means there is usually only an outside chance that you will escape your social and economic conditions."[1]
It was at this point in his life and in Washington D.C. that Tutt found and developed his politics.
Politics
[edit]Tutt, now class conscious and politically active, turned to socialism after becoming increasingly critical of progressive liberalism. Philosophy and psychoanalysis, two discourses which he had always found an interest in as an intellectual set of teachings, now became his source for thinking critically about class politics both on the personal and societal level. By the time Barack Obama first ran for president of the United States in 2007-08, Tutt began to turn against liberalism entirely.[1]
Professional Career
[edit]Tutt is now a professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C. in the Department of Philosophy at Columbian College of Arts & Sciences.[2] His latest research looks at virtue ethics within continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theories of historical periodization and how philosophy can help us understand otherization in society, particularly Islamophobia. In his research, Tutt is interested in creating a dialogue between psychoanalysis and philosophy as a means to better understanding human subjectivity and desire.[2]
Books
[edit]- Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation
- How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche
- Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives (co-edited with Ramon Harvey)
Other Publications
[edit]Book Chapters
[edit]- "Belonging on the Left Today: Or How to Avoid the Dissident Trap" in Underground Theory
- "Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology" in Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
- "Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero" in True Detective and Philosophy
- "Karatani for Libidinal Economy: Invariance and Praxis" in Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times
- Special Issue Journal on Lukács' The Destruction of Reason in Historical Materialism (co-edited with Matthew Sharpe) [forthcoming]
Ph.D Dissertation
[edit]Essays and Papers
[edit]- 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
- Learning from Freud’s Anti-Politics: Why Marxists Should Read Philip Rieff
- Reason in Revolt: Freud Reopens the Radical Enlightenment
- On the Communism of Jean-Luc Nancy
- The Rise and Fall of Homegrown American Marxism
- The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács’s Worldview Marxism
- Recentering the Lumpen Question: Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
- The Frankenstein of Culture Jamming: QAnon, Baudrillard and the Politics of Simulation
- Nietzsche in His Time: The Struggle Against Socratism and Socialism
- The Materialism of Warm-Stream Marxism: Ernst Bloch on Ibn Sina
- The Subject Supposed to Rebel: A Lacanian Perspective on Black Lives Matter
- Overcoming Liberalism from Within: On Solidarity and American Socialism
- The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism
- Obscure Subjects: Myth and Metapolitics on the alt-Right
- Elements of Islamophobia: The State, Class and Capital On The Political Project of Psychoanalysis Deleuzian Theology and the Immanence of the Act of Being
- The Amputated Father: Kojève’s Theory of Revolution and Authority review of Alexander Kojève’s The Notion of Authority
- Thinking Islamic Governance with Continental Philosophy
- Radical Love and Žižek’s Ethics of Singularity
- Oedipus and the Social Bond in Žižek and Badiou
- The Object of Proximity: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Žižek and Santner via Lacan
- The Arab uprisings and the dawn of emancipatory history
- Badiou and the Affirmation of Emancipatory Politics
- Psychoanalysis and the Veil in Islam: Rethinking Truth and Liberation
- Is Philosophy Finally Without God?
- Plato, Our Comrade?
- The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason: The New Discourse on Tolerance in the Age of Terror
- Metaphysicians in the Dark: Poetry, Thinking, and Nostalgia for the Idea
- Psychoanalysis and the Mad Artist: Hölderlin’s Empty Center
- Beyond the Stereotype: The Shared Story of Muslims and Mormons in America
- Malleable Stereotypes: How Media is Improving the Image of American Muslims
Interviews
[edit]- Interview with philosopher Alain Badiou “Philosophy and Insurrection”
- Interview with philosopher Adam Bartlett “Badiou and Plato”
- Interview with geographer Phil Neel “On the Far Right After Trump and Political Organization”
- Interview with Lacanian theorist Mari Ruti “Protagonists of Love”
- Interview with philosopher Ishay Landa “The Apprentices Sorcerer: On Nietzsche and Popular Culture”
- Interview with philosopher Daniel Lopez “Lukács Today”
- Interview with philosopher Simon Critchley “The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing”
- Interview with Lacanian theorist Todd McGowan “Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis”
- Interview with Hegelian philosopher Frank Smecker “Night of the World: Traversing the Ideology of Objectivity”
- Interview with Lacanian psychoanalyst Thomas Svolos “Lacan and the Politics of Psychoanalysis”
- Interview with political theorist Jodi Dean “Occupy Wall Street and the New Radicalism”
- Interview with poet and activist Joshua Clover “The Return of Riots and Uprisings”
- Interview with political theorist Richard Gilman-Opalsky “Insurrections in the 21st Century”