Re-thinking Ressentiment
On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2016
220 pages
978-3-8394-2128-4 (ISBN)
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The charge of »Ressentiment« can in today's world - less from traditionally conservative quarters than from the neo-positivist discourses of particular forms of liberalism - be used to undermine the argumentative credibility of political opponents, dissidents and those who call for greater »justice«. The essays in this volume draw on the broad spectrum of cultural discourse on »Ressentiment«, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Starting with its conceptual genesis, the essays also show contemporary nuances of »Ressentiment« as well as its influence on literary and philosophical discourse in the 20th century.
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On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics
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Jeanne Riou lectures in German Studies at University College Dublin. Her research interests include Continental, especially German Philosophy, Intellectual History and German Literature of the Modernist and Romantic periods.
Mary Gallagher lectures in French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin. Her research interests include post-colonial and migrant writing in French and the poet(h)ics of globalization.
Mary Gallagher lectures in French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin. Her research interests include post-colonial and migrant writing in French and the poet(h)ics of globalization.
Content
- Cover Re-thinking Ressentiment
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Towards a History of Ressentiment
- Introduction: The Critical Focus of Re-thinking Ressentiment
- The Question of Resentment in Western and Confucian Philosophy
- Ressentiment as Moral Imperative: Jean Améry's Nietzschean Revaluation of Victim Morality
- Ressentiment beyond Nietzsche and Améry: H. G. Adler between Literary Ressentiment and Divine Grace
- Contagion
- Contemporary media coverage of protest movements in Germany and the charge of Ressentiment , with particular focus on "Stuttgart 21"
- Specular Ressentiment : San-Antonio, or the Art of Faking Resentment
- Criticism or Ressentiment ? Literary Studies and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity
- Ressentiment and Dissensus : The Place of Critique in the Contemporary Academy
- About the Authors
- Index of Names
