Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought

Contents

Foreword Robert Gooding-Williams vii Acknowledgments xix Note on Abbreviations xxi Introduction: The Art of the Cultural Physician 1 Part I: Diagnoses 1. Kindred Spirits: Nietzsche and Locke as Progenitors of Axiological Liberation A. Todd Franklin 17 2. Nietzsche, Ressentiment, Lynching John Pittman 33 3. Double Consciousness and Second Sight Kathleen Marie Higgins 51 4. Of Tragedy and the Blues in an Age of Decadence: Thoughts on Nietzsche and African America Lewis R. Gordon 75 Part II: Prescriptions 5. Ecce Negro: How To Become a Race Theorist Paul C. Taylor 101 Contents v 6. Nietzsche’s Proto-Phenomenological Approach to the Theoretical Problem of Race Daniel W. Conway 125 7. The Price of the Ticket: A Genealogy and Revaluation of Race Jacqueline Scott 149 Part III: Regimens of Recovery 8. Unlikely Illuminations: Nietzsche and Frederick Douglass on Power, Struggle, and the Aisthesis of Freedom Christa Davis Acampora 175 9. Masculinity and Existential Freedom: Wright, Ellison, Morrison, and Nietzsche Cynthia Willett 203 10. Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can’t Sing the Blues, or Davis, Nietzsche, and the Social Embeddedness of Aesthetic Judgments James Winchester 225 List of Contributors 247 Index 251 vi Contents ...