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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 politicaldiscourse. 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.>
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sjoerd van Tuinen Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsPART I Ressentiment as Involuntary Servitude1. The Politics of Ressentiment and the Problem of Voluntary Servitude
Saul Newman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK2. Servitude of Pain: Reflections on the Passivity and Activity of Affects in Spinoza's
EthicsMarc Rölli, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland3. The Problem of Ressentiment in Nietzsche and Deleuze`s Nietzsche
Simon Scott, University of Warwick, UK4. The Irenics of Ressentiment: From Good Sense to Common Sense
Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsPART II Ressentiment and/or Envy5. Envy: Sin of Sins, Painful Birth of Desire. Towards a Metapsychology of Ressentiment
Frank Vande Veire, University of Ghent, Belgium6. Resentment and Ressentiment, Dignity and Honour: A Genealogical Analysis
Guido Vanheeswijck, University of Antwerp, Belgium7. How the Other Becomes Our Beast. Postmodernity's Production of Ressentiment: a Mode D'emploi in Six Steps
Robert Pfaller, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria8. Failure as Triumph. The political Anthropology of the Death Drive in Slavoj Zizek
Christoph Narholz, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, GermanyPART III Ressentiment and Democracy9. The Return of Ressentiment: the Dutch Debate on Right Wing Populism
Merijn Oudenampsen, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands10. Resentment and Democracy
Sjaak Koenis, Maastricht University, The Netherlands11. The Revenge of the Masses: Ressentiment or Amor Fati?
Daniël de Zeeuw, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) The Netherlands12. The Power of Ambivalence
Sjoerd van Tuinen interviews Peter Sloterdijk, former Director of theKarlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany13. A Commentary to Peter Sloterdijk's Remarks on Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"
(Efrain Kristal, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, USAIndex
About the author
Sjoerd van Tuinen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and co-founder of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge. His previous titles include: Deleuze and The Fold: A Critical Reader (2010), Speculative Art Histories (2017), Art History after Deleuze and Guattari (2017) and The Polemics of Ressentiment: Variations on Nietzsche (Bloomsbury, 2018).
