Nietzsche and Politicized Identities / edited by Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bamford, Rebecca, editor.

Merrick, Allison, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Identity politics.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: On the Origins of Identities and Modes of Subjection

Part II: Elitism and Political Hierarchies

Part III: Emancipatory Possibilities

Notes

References

Chapter 1: Contending Selfhood: Nietzschean Contributions to the Question of Political Identity

Nietzsche on Human Selfhood

Citizenship

Will to Power and Politics

Identity Politics

Immigration and Nationalism

The Good European

The Emigrating Self

Ethnic Identity

American Immigration

Chapter 2: Nietzsche and Tragic Identity

Souls in Contest

Double Descent

Tragic Identity

Chapter 3: Passionate Actors and Wounded Apes: Nietzsche on Identity Formation

Actors, Apes, and Ideals

Wounded and Idealized Identities

Chapter 4: How We Became Who We Are: Retracing Nietzsche's Genealogy of Politicized Identity

Psychology: Morphology of the Development of Will to Power

Concerning the Moral Prejudices of Psychologists

Psychology as Morphology

Psychology as Morphology and the Doctrine of the Development of the Will to Power

"The Great Revolt Against the Dominance of Noble Values" (EH "Genealogy"): Revisiting the First Essay of the Genealogy

Of Genealogy and Psychology: Williams's Worry

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Perspectivism, World-Traveling, and the Multiplicitous Self: Rereading Nietzsche through Latinx Decolonial Feminist Philosophy

Nietzsche's Perspectivism as Affective Interpretation

World-Traveling, Border Thinking, and Relational Perspectivism

Perspective and the Multiplicitous Self

Perspectivism, Pluralism, and Liberation

References.

Part II: Elitism and Political Hierarchies

Chapter 6: Shame, Humiliation, and Whiplash: The Case of the Ascetic Priest

Tough Talk = Tough Love?

A Final Lesson in Therapeutic Whiplash

Nietzsche's Profile of the Ascetic Priest

Terence Fletcher: The High Priest of Jazz Virtuosity

A Dual Metamorphosis

Timely Interventions: Nietzsche and Chazelle

Chapter 7: Freedom against Equality: Nietzsche's Aristocratic Politics

Activating Ontological Freedom

Arresting Ontological Freedom: Asceticism Democratized

Recovering Ontological Freedom

Chapter 8: Masters, Slaves, "Terrorists": On Elitism and Existential Threats

Masters and Slaves

"Terrorism"

Elitism and Existential Threat

Chapter 9: Nietzsche and Feminine Subjectivity

Toward the Question of Feminine Subjectivity in Nietzsche's Work

The Question of Feminine Subjectivity in Nietzsche's Work

Nietzsche's Summoning of Women

Chapter 10: Sexism Is Exhausting: Nietzsche and the Emotional Dynamics of Sexist Oppression

Nietzsche on Affectivity

The Sociality of Emotional Experience

The Sociocultural Construction of Appropriate Emotions

Internalization, Self-Suspicion, and the Development of a Self-Negating Conscience

A Nietzschean Account of the Internalization of Sexist Oppression

A Few Final Thoughts

Chapter 11: "The Great Seriousness Begins": Nietzsche's Tragic Philosophy and Philosophy's Role in Creating Healthier Racialized Identities

Background Information-Nihilism and the Problem of Decadence

Tragedy and the Tragic

The Historical and Epistemic Meanings of Tragic Wisdom.

Nietzsche's Tragic Philosophy and the Philosophy of Race

Chapter 12: "To Affirm while Resisting": Ralph Ellison and Friedrich Nietzsche on Overcoming History

Ellison and Nietzsche: Elective Affinities

Nietzsche on Affirmation

Ellison on Affirmation

Ellison's Invisible Man as a Fable About Affirmation

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 13: Disability, Power, and Life

Nietzsche's Philosophy in Disability Justice

Power and the Ideology of Pity

Disability and Power

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438497198

1438497199

OCLC:

1427663740