Critical Affinities -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction:The Art of the Cultural Physician -- Part I: Diagnoses -- 1. Kindred Spirits: Nietzsche and Lockeas Progenitors of Axiological Liberation -- 2. Nietzsche, Ressentiment, Lynching -- 3. Double Consciousness and Second Sight -- 4. Of Tragedy and the Blues in an Age of Decadence: Thoughts on Nietzsche and African America -- Part II: Prescriptions -- 5. Ecce Negro: How to Become a Race Theorist -- 6. Nietzsche's Proto-Phenomenological Approach to theTheoretical Problem of Race -- 7. The Price of the Ticket: A Genealogy and Revaluation of Race -- Part III: Regimens of Recovery -- 8. Unlikely Illuminations: Nietzsche and Frederick Douglasson Power, Struggle, and the Aisthesis of Freedom -- 9. Masculinity and Existential Freedom: Wright, Ellison, Morrison,and Nietzsche -- 10. Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can't Sing the Blues, or Davis, Nietzsche,and the Social Embeddedness of Aesthetic Judgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.