The Politics of the Wretched
Race, Reason, and Ressentiment
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2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-42285-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-42285-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. He is the co-author of Universal Politics, and the author of Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality, and Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future.
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
Bibliography
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-42285-1 / 1350422851 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-42285-8 / 9781350422858 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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