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