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This book is a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s provocative question: How much and how does ressentiment condition our daily life? During the twentieth century we witnessed veritable eruptions of this insidious emotion, and we are still witnesses of its proliferation at various levels of society. This book aims to explore, according to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, the anthropological and social assumptions that make up ressentiment and to investigate its genesis. The analysis of ressentiment shows that this emotion evolves from mimetic desire: it is an affective experience that people have when a rival denies them opportunities or valuable resources (including status) that they consider to be socially accessible. It is a specific figure of mimetic desire that is typical of contemporary society, where the equality that is proclaimed at the level of values contrasts with striking inequalities of power and access to material resources. This dichotomy generates increasing tension between highly competitive and egalitarian mimetic desires and growing social inequalities. The ressentiment is ambiguous, and its ambiguity is that of mimetic desire itself, which we cannot dismiss from our lives. In that it provides occasions of conflict and baseness, ressentiment can fuel violence, discord, and injustice, but it also can open opportunities for growth and justice, and for inventing institutions that are better adapted to the transformations of our contemporary society.

Desire (Philosophy) --- Resentment. --- Emotions --- Philosophy

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"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 political discourse. 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Resentment --- Psychological aspects. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,

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In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A number of more recent school shootings have given this debate a renewed sense of urgency, as have the continued use of violent metaphors in public address and the dishonorable state of America’s partisan gridlock. This conversation, unfortunately, has been complicated by a collective cultural numbness to violence. But that does not mean that fruitful conversations should not continue. In The Politics of Resentment, Jeremy Engels picks up this thread, examining the costs of violent political rhetoric for our society and the future of democracy. The Politics of Resentment traces the rise of especially violent rhetoric in American public discourse by investigating key events in American history. Engels analyzes how resentful rhetoric has long been used by public figures in order to achieve political ends. He goes on to show how a more devastating form of resentment started in the 1960s, dividing Americans on issues of structural inequalities and foreign policy. He discusses, for example, the rhetorical and political contexts that have made the mobilization of groups such as Nixon’s “silent majority” and the present Tea Party possible. Now, in an age of recession and sequestration, many Americans believe that they have been given a raw deal and experience feelings of injustice in reaction to events beyond individual control. With The Politics of Resentment, Engels wants to make these feelings of victimhood politically productive by challenging the toxic rhetoric that takes us there, by defusing it, and by enabling citizens to have the kinds of conversations we need to have in order to fight for life, liberty, and equality.

Rhetoric --- Resentment --- Emotions --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Political aspects --- History. --- America. --- Engels. --- Genealogy. --- culture. --- democracy. --- foreign policy. --- government. --- hate. --- history. --- injustics. --- numbness. --- political discourse. --- politics. --- resentment. --- rhetoric. --- shootings. --- society. --- united states. --- us. --- usa. --- violence.

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This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate.

McGahern, John, --- MacGahern, John --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- McGahern, John --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Biography: literary --- Denis Sampson. --- Irish themes. --- John McGahern. --- afterlife. --- compassion. --- disillusionment. --- evil. --- family experience. --- human propensity. --- identity shaping. --- liberal education. --- openness. --- personality through language. --- physical landscape. --- resentment. --- revolutionary memories. --- strangeness. --- vision of education.

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In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers--how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.--

English literature --- Peasantry --- Literature and society --- Written communication --- Peasant uprisings --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381. --- Literacy --- Peasants --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Peasants' uprisings --- Uprisings, Peasant --- Insurgency --- Revolutions --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Peasants' Revolt, 1381 --- Wat Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading --- History. --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Langland, William, --- Great Britain --- England --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- 14th century english history. --- 14th century english social movements. --- authority. --- chaucer. --- cultural studies. --- england. --- english history. --- english peasantry. --- european history. --- gower. --- historicism medievalism. --- insurgent ideology. --- langland. --- literacy. --- medieval england. --- medieval literature. --- medieval villagers. --- official archives. --- peasant resentment. --- peasants revolt. --- public discourse. --- rebellion. --- rebels. --- rule. --- social change. --- social movement. --- textual culture. --- the new historicism studies in cultural poetics. --- written history. --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- GREAT BRITAIN --- ENGLAND --- LANGLAND (WILLIAM), 1330?-1400? --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- PEASANTS IN LITERATURE --- TYLER'S INSURRECTION IN LITERATURE --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- HISTORY --- RICHARD II, 1377-1399 --- INTELLECTUAL LIFE --- MEDIEVAL PERIOD, 1066-1485 --- PIERS THE PLOWMAN