Jacqueline Scott is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. A. Todd Franklin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College.

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