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- Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Critical Affinities is the first book to explore the multifaceted relationship between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and various dimensions of African American thought. Exploring the connections between these two unlikely interlocutors, the contributors focus on unmasking and understanding the root causes and racially inflected symptoms of various manifestations of cultural malaise. They contemplate the operative warrant for reconstituted conceptions of racial identity and recognize the existential and social recuperative potential of the will to power. In so doing, they simultaneously foster and exemplify a nuanced understanding of what both traditions regard as “the art of the cultural physician.” The contributors connote daring scholarly attempts to explicate the ways in which clarifying the critical affinities between Nietzsche and various expressions of African American thought not only enriches our understanding of each, but also enhances our ability to realize the broader ends of advancing the prospects for social and psychological flourishing.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. i
- Foreword: Supposing Nietzsche to Be Black—What Then?
- pp. vii-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xix
- Note on Abbreviations
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Part I: Diagnoses
- 2. Nietzsche, Ressentiment, Lynching
- pp. 33-49
- Part II: Prescriptions
- 5. Ecce Negro:How to Become a Race Theorist
- pp. 101-123
- Part III: Regimens of Recovery
- Contributors
- pp. 247-249
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791481219
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
74908304
Pages
287
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No