Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought

Contributors

Christa Davis Acampora is an associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the co-editor of A Nietzschean Bestiary (State University of NewYork Press,2004) and has published numerous articles on Nietzsche. She is currently completing a manuscript on Nietzsche’s conception of contest and a two-volume project on aesthetics and the cultural productions of women of color (also for SUNY Press). Daniel W. Conway is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.He has published numerous articles on Nietzsche, nineteenth-century philosophy, political theory, and ethics. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Political (Thinking the Political) (Routledge, 1997) and Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols (Cambridge, 1997). He is the editor of Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Routledge, 2002) and Nietzsche: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 1998), and he is the co-editor of Nietzsche, Philosophy, and the Arts (Cambridge, 1998), and The Politics of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992). A. Todd Franklin is an associate professor of philosophy at Hamilton College.He has authored several scholarly works on Nietzsche, the social and political import of various forms of existential enlightenment , and philosophical conceptions of the self. His current work focuses on issues of race and the pedagogical project of promoting critical consciousness. Robert Gooding-Williams is a professor of philosophy,adjunct professor of African American Studies, and director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern University. He was the Jean Gimbel Lane Professor of the Humanities for 2000–2001. He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, Contributors 247 2001), the co-editor of the Bedford Books edition of The Souls of Black Folk (pub.1997),and the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (Routledge, 1993). He has published articles on Nietzsche, DuBois, multiculturalism, and the representation of race in film. He also has been the recipient of numerous academic honors, including two NEH College Teachers Fellowships and a Laurance A. Rockefeller Fellowship,awarded by Princeton’s University Center for HumanValues. Lewis R. Gordon is the Laura Carnell University professor of philosophy and religion and director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University. He also is an ongoing visiting professor of government and philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is the author of several influential books, including Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age (Rowman & Littlefield , 1997), which won the Gustavus Myer Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana ExistentialThought (Routledge,2000),and his latest book, Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Paradigm, 2006). Kathleen Marie Higgins is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written, edited, and co-edited many books, including Nietzsche’s Zarathustra (Temple, 1987), Reading Nietzsche (with Robert C. Solomon, Oxford, 1996), The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (with Bernd Magnus,Cambridge,1996), Comic Relief:Nietzsche’s Gay Science (Oxford,2000),andWhat Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert C. Solomon, Schocken, 2000). In addition, she has published many articles on Nietzsche and aesthetics, and she has conducted a series of audio and video lectures on Nietzsche with Robert C. Solomon, The Will to Power:The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Teaching Company, 1999). John Pittman teaches philosophy and humanities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He edited African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions (Routledge, 1997) and is co-editor, with Tommy Lott, of The Blackwell Companion to African-American Philosophy (2003). Jacqueline Scott is an assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. She has published several articles on Nietzsche and critical race theory, and she is currently working on a 248 Contributors manuscript, Nietzsche’s Worthy Opponents: Socrates,Wagner, the Ascetic Priest, and Women. Paul C. Taylor is an associate professor of philosophy at Temple University and a fellow of the Jamestown Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Race: A Philosophical Introduction (Polity-Blackwell , 2004) and several articles on aesthetics, critical race theory, and pragmatism. Cynthia Willett is a professor of philosophy at Emory University . Her books include Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (Routledge, 1995), Theorizing Multiculturalism (Blackwell, 1998...