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