The Polemics of Ressentiment
Subtitle: Variations on Nietzsche
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 17, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350003675
Description: "The rise of populism, cynicism, fanaticism and fundamentalism challenges us to reconsider the problem of ressentiment. Characterized by Nietzsche as the self-poisoning of the will through internalising trauma in the form of a postponed and imaginary revenge, the concept of ressentiment is making a comeback in political discourse. Unlike resentment, the feeling of injustice, ressentiment is an intrinsically polemical notion. It implies a political drama in which there is no inherent good sense in its application and no universal criterion. Drawing on psychoanalysis, political theory, media theory and philosophy, this book examines a wide variety of ideological contexts, offering an examination of the divergent senses in which the concept of ressentiment is used today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: The Polemics of Ressentiment: Variations on Nietzsche (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)