- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
The Politics of the Wretched argues for ressentiment 's generative negativity, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective "No". Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying ressentiment – private and public use – by substituting ressentiment for reason. This reinterpretation argues for a public use of ressentiment, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause. A public use of ressentiment rails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists on ressentiment 's generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective "No". Reframing ressentiment as a tool to oppose the evils of capitalism, anti-Blackness, and neocolonialism, it both alarms the liberal gatekeepers of the status quo and promises to energize the anti-racist Left in its ongoing struggles for universal justice and emancipation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Public Use of Ressentiment, or the Reason of the Wretched
- 1 Exiting the Zone of Nonbeing: The Death Drive and the Inexorable Demand for More
- 2 Reckoning with Disavowal, or the Position of the Colonial Unthought
- 3 Racial Ressentiment or Economic Anxiety?: On the Politics of Material Interests
- 4 Zionist Ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian Question
- Conclusion: Living with Ressentiment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Imprint