The Polemics of Ressentiment - Variations on Nietzsche

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.>

Info autore

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sjoerd van Tuinen, Sjoerd Van Tuinen, Sjoerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam Van Tuinen
• Con la collaborazione di: Sjoerd van Tuinen (Editore), Sjoerd Van Tuinen (Editore), Sjoerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam Van Tuinen (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781350003675
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00367-5
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Social and cultural history, Ethics and moral philosophy