Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory

Dr. Christine Payne is an instructor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She also lectures for SDSU’s Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program. She specializes in social and political theory, feminist science and technology studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge. Her article, 'Desire and Doubt: The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play' was published in American Journal of Play in Fall 2018. She is also the co-editor of a recent special issue onNietzsche and Critical Social Theory of the journal Critical Sociology in which her article 'The Question of Ideology in Light of Perspectival Knowledge: The Truths of Marx and Nietzsche' appears. Michael J. Roberts is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University where he teaches courses on social and cultural theory, science and technology studies, race and class intersectionality and social movements. He is, together with Christine Payne, co-editor of a special issue on Nietzsche and Critical Theory for the journal Critical Sociology. His articles have appeared in the journals Rethinking Marxism, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Race & Class, Popular Music, The International Review for the Sociology of Sport and the Sociological Quarterly. He is also co-editor with Stanley Aronowitz of Class: The Anthology(Wiley, 2017). His book Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock’n’Roll, The Labor Question and the Musicians’ Union (Duke University Press, 2014) was nominated for the Mary Douglas Prize for best book by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Situating this Volume Part 1: Ressentiment and Redemption: Overcoming the Slave Revolt of Morals, Politics, and Aesthetics 1 Wounded Attachments?: Slave Morality, the Left, and the Future of Revolutionary DesireC. Heike Schotten2 The Trump Horror Show through Nietzschean PerspectivesDouglas Kellner3 Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Musical Spirit of Ressentiment and RedemptionNancy S. Love4 Hip-Hop as Critical Tragic Realism: Cultural Analysis beyond Irony and ConflictJames Meeker and T.J. Berard5 Nietzsche’s Economy: Revisiting the Slave Revolt in MoralsAllison Merrick Part 2: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Marxist Critique 6 Marx, Nietzsche, and the Contradictions of CapitalismIshay Landa7 Labor’s Will to Power: Nietzsche, American Syndicalism, and the Politics of LiberationKristin Lawler8 Marxism, Anarchism, and the Nietzschean Critique of CapitalismGary Yeritsian9 Between Nietzsche and Marx: “Great Politics and What They Cost”Babette Babich Part 3: Beyond Truth and Relativism: Nietzsche and the Question of Knowledge 10 Toward a Gay Social Science: A Nietzschean-Marxist Alternative to Conventional Sociological TheoryMichael Roberts11 Resuscitating Sociological Theory: Nietzsche and Adorno on Error and SpeculationsJeremiah Morelock12 The Science of the Last Man: Nietzsche and the Early Frankfurt SchoolDaniel Sullivan13 The Death of Truth – Guilt, Anxiety, Dread, and Hope: Nietzschean ConfessionsChristine Payne Part 4: All-Too-Human: The Question of the Human Condition in Light of Nietzsche 14 Nietzsche’s Genealogy as a Critique of Racial Narratives and the Loss of SolidarityJung Min Choi and John W. Murphy15 Nietzsche’s “Anti-Darwinism”: A Deflationary CritiquePeter Atterton16 Play as Watchword: Nietzsche and FoucaultDawn Helphand17 Critique of Subjectivity and Affirmation of Pleasure in Adorno and NietzscheStefano Giacchetti Ludovisi18 Nietzsche and HappinessBryan S. Turner19 Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzschean Pedagogy in the History ClassroomEve Kornfeld Index