SAD VERSUS JOYFUL PASSIONS SPINOZA, NIETZSCHE, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WHITENESS.

The article discusses Baruch Spinoza's and Friedrich Nietzsche's accounts of affect and ontology and how they can be significantly helpful to philosophical attempts to transform whiteness into an anti-racist identity. The author examines Spinoza's affinities with Nietzsche to explain the different ways that sad and joyful passions constitute and circulate through human beings in their interrelationships.