Polemics of Ressentiment

Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Co-Founder of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge, at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsIntroductionSjoerd van Tuinen Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsPART I Ressentiment as Involuntary Servitude1. The Politics of Ressentiment and the Problem of Voluntary ServitudeSaul Newman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK2. Servitude of Pain: Reflections on the Passivity and Activity of Affects in Spinoza’s EthicsMarc Rölli, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland3. The Problem of Ressentiment in Nietzsche and Deleuze`s Nietzsche Simon Scott, University of Warwick, UK4. The Irenics of Ressentiment: From Good Sense to Common SenseSjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsPART II Ressentiment and/or Envy5. Envy: Sin of Sins, Painful Birth of Desire. Towards a Metapsychology of RessentimentFrank Vande Veire, University of Ghent, Belgium6. Resentment and Ressentiment, Dignity and Honour: A Genealogical AnalysisGuido Vanheeswijck, University of Antwerp, Belgium7. How the Other Becomes Our Beast. Postmodernity's Production of Ressentiment: a Mode D'emploi in Six Steps Robert Pfaller, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria8. Failure as Triumph. The political Anthropology of the Death Drive in Slavoj ŽižekChristoph Narholz, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, GermanyPART III Ressentiment and Democracy9. The Return of Ressentiment: the Dutch Debate on Right Wing Populism Merijn Oudenampsen, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands10. Resentment and Democracy Sjaak Koenis, Maastricht University, The Netherlands11. The Revenge of the Masses: Ressentiment or Amor Fati? Daniël de Zeeuw, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) The Netherlands12. The Power of Ambivalence Sjoerd van Tuinen interviews Peter Sloterdijk, former Director of theKarlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany13. A Commentary to Peter Sloterdijk’s Remarks on Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”(Efrain Kristal, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, USAIndex

A remarkably timely volume, exploring ressentiment as a problem of voluntary servitude and clearly articulating its critical and polemical value, in a good mix of contributions from prominent thinkers and early-career researchers. One of the richest and most coherently framed discussions of ressentiment in Continental philosophy in recent decades.