Nietzsche and Politicized Identities

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
Part I: On the Origins of Identities and Modes of Subjection
	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
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Nietzsche and Tragic Identity
		Souls in Contest
		Double Descent
		Tragic Identity
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Passionate Actors and Wounded Apes: Nietzsche on Identity Formation
		Introduction
		Actors, Apes, and Ideals
		Wounded and Idealized Identities
		Notes
		References
	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
		Notes
		References
	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
		Notes
		References
Part II: Elitism and Political Hierarchies
	Chapter 6: Shame, Humiliation, and Whiplash: The Case of the Ascetic Priest
		Introduction
		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
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Freedom against Equality: Nietzsche’s Aristocratic Politics
		Activating Ontological Freedom
		Arresting Ontological Freedom: Asceticism Democratized
		Recovering Ontological Freedom
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Masters, Slaves, “Terrorists”: On Elitism and Existential Threats
		Masters and Slaves
		“Terrorism”
		Elitism and Existential Threat
		Notes
		References
Part III: Emancipatory Possibilities
	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
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Sexism Is Exhausting: Nietzsche and the Emotional Dynamics of Sexist Oppression
		Introduction
		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
		Notes
		References
	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
		Notes
		References
	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
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Disability, Power, and Life
		Nietzsche’s Philosophy in Disability Justice
		Power and the Ideology of Pity
		Disability and Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Contributors
Index