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.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction: 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 Desire

  C. Heike Schotten

2 The Trump Horror Show through Nietzschean Perspectives

  Douglas Kellner

3 Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Musical Spirit of Ressentiment and Redemption

  Nancy S. Love

4 Hip-Hop as Critical Tragic Realism: Cultural Analysis beyond Irony and Conflict

  James Meeker and T.J. Berard

5 Nietzsche’s Economy: Revisiting the Slave Revolt in Morals

  Allison Merrick

 

Part 2: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Marxist Critique

 

6 Marx, Nietzsche, and the Contradictions of Capitalism

  Ishay Landa

7 Labor’s Will to Power: Nietzsche, American Syndicalism, and the Politics of Liberation

  Kristin Lawler

8 Marxism, Anarchism, and the Nietzschean Critique of Capitalism

  Gary Yeritsian

9 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 Theory

  Michael Roberts

11 Resuscitating Sociological Theory: Nietzsche and Adorno on Error and Speculations

  Jeremiah Morelock

12 The Science of the Last Man: Nietzsche and the Early Frankfurt School

  Daniel Sullivan

13 The Death of Truth – Guilt, Anxiety, Dread, and Hope: Nietzschean Confessions

  Christine 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 Solidarity

  Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy

15 Nietzsche’s “Anti-Darwinism”: A Deflationary Critique

  Peter Atterton

16 Play as Watchword: Nietzsche and Foucault

  Dawn Helphand

17 Critique of Subjectivity and Affirmation of Pleasure in Adorno and Nietzsche

  Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi

18 Nietzsche and Happiness

  Bryan S. Turner

19 Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzschean Pedagogy in the History Classroom

  Eve Kornfeld

 

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