Nietzsche''s Psychology of Ressentiment - Revenge and Justice in 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality's values. This book brings it sharply into focus and provides the first detailed examination of Nietzsche's psychology of ressentiment.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Ressentiment as the 'Home of Justice'?
2. The Psychology of Ressentiment
3. Resentiment's Injustice
4. Slave Revolt, Self-Deception, the Free Subject
5. Interlude: Bad Conscience, Guilt, and the Priestly Ascetic Ideal
6. The Emergence of Moral Justice
7. A Genealogy of the Capacity to be Just to Others

About the author

Guy Elgat is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and The Journal of Nietzsche Studies.

Summary

Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality?s values. This book brings it sharply into focus and provides the first detailed examination of Nietzsche?s psychology of ressentiment.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Elgat, Guy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago Elgat, Elgat Guy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367372378
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37237-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800