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Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity and Ambiguity brings together scholars from a variety of disciplinary background to assess the salience of Nietzsche for critical social theory today. In the context of global economic crises and the rise of authoritarian regimes across the U.S. and Europe, the question asked by these scholars is: why Nietzsche now? Containing several innovative interventions in the areas of queer theory, political economy, critical race theory, labour history, hip-hop aesthetics, sociology, the Frankfurt School, social movements studies, science and technology studies, pedagogy, and ludic studies, this volume pushes Nietzsche studies in new directions, seeking to broaden the appeal of Nietzsche beyond philosophy and political theory.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Situating this Volume
Part 1: Ressentiment and Redemption: Overcoming the Slave Revolt of Morals, Politics, and Aesthetics
1Wounded Attachments?: Slave Morality, the Left, and the Future of Revolutionary Desire
C. Heike Schotten
2The Trump Horror Show through Nietzschean Perspectives
Douglas Kellner
3Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Musical Spirit of Ressentiment and Redemption
Nancy S. Love
4Hip-Hop as Critical Tragic Realism: Cultural Analysis beyond Irony and Conflict
James Meeker and T.J. Berard
5Nietzsche's Economy: Revisiting the Slave Revolt in Morals
Allison Merrick
Part 2: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Marxist Critique
6Marx, Nietzsche, and the Contradictions of Capitalism
Ishay Landa
7Labor's Will to Power: Nietzsche, American Syndicalism, and the Politics of Liberation
Kristin Lawler
8Marxism, Anarchism, and the Nietzschean Critique of Capitalism
Gary Yeritsian
9Between Nietzsche and Marx: "Great Politics and What They Cost"
Babette Babich
Part 3: Beyond Truth and Relativism: Nietzsche and the Question of Knowledge
10Toward a Gay Social Science: A Nietzschean-Marxist Alternative to Conventional Sociological Theory
Michael Roberts
11Resuscitating Sociological Theory: Nietzsche and Adorno on Error and Speculations
Jeremiah Morelock
12The Science of the Last Man: Nietzsche and the Early Frankfurt School
Daniel Sullivan
13The Death of Truth - Guilt, Anxiety, Dread, and Hope: Nietzschean Confessions
Christine Payne
Part 4: All-Too-Human: The Question of the Human Condition in Light of Nietzsche
14Nietzsche's Genealogy as a Critique of Racial Narratives and the Loss of Solidarity
Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy
15Nietzsche's "Anti-Darwinism": A Deflationary Critique
Peter Atterton
16Play as Watchword: Nietzsche and Foucault
Dawn Helphand
17Critique of Subjectivity and Affirmation of Pleasure in Adorno and Nietzsche
Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
18Nietzsche and Happiness
Bryan S. Turner
19Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzschean Pedagogy in the History Classroom
Eve Kornfeld
Index