Contribution to Book
Wounded Attachments? Slave Morality, the Left, and the Future of Revolutionary Desire
Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity
(2020)
Abstract
This chapter offers a critique of Wendy Brown's "Wounded Attachments" essay, taking left Nietzscheanism to task for naturalizing hierarchy and failing to explicitly side with the oppressed. In contrast, I suggest that queer theory's appropriation of Nietzsche's critique of morality presents a more liberatory contribution to and basis for a left politics rooted in solidarity with the oppressed and the waywardness of desire.
Keywords
- Nietzsche,
- slave morality,
- queer theory,
- left politics,
- revolution,
- desire,
- moralism
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities,
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies,
- Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
- Women's Studies,
- Other Arts and Humanities,
- Philosophy,
- Continental Philosophy,
- Ethics and Political Philosophy,
- Feminist Philosophy,
- Other Philosophy,
- Political Science,
- Other Political Science,
- Political Theory,
- Sociology,
- Gender and Sexuality,
- Inequality and Stratification,
- Other Sociology,
- Politics and Social Change,
- Race and Ethnicity and
- Theory, Knowledge and Science
Publication Date
2020
Editor
Christine A. Payne and Michael J. Roberts
Publisher
Brill
Citation Information
C. Heike Schotten. "Wounded Attachments? Slave Morality, the Left, and the Future of Revolutionary Desire" Leiden, the NetherlandsNietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity (2020) p. 31 - 59 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/heike_schotten/30/