Politics of the Wretched

Race, Reason, and Ressentiment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Zahi Zalloua, USA) Zalloua, Zahi (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures / Whitman College, Whitman College

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-05
Mått156 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350422858

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Public Use of Ressentiment, or the Reason of the Wretched1. Exiting the Zone of Nonbeing: The Death Drive and the Inexorable Demand for More2. Reckoning with Disavowal, Or the Position of the Colonial Unthought3. Racial Ressentiment or Economic Anxiety? On The Politics of Material Interests4. Zionist Ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian QuestionConclusion: Living with Ressentiment BibliographyNotesIndex

One could not pick a better guide through the intellectual and political history of ressentiment than Zahi Zalloua. His account of the radical contemporary potential of ressentiment - the political affect par excellence, the primary affect of the wretched, as he reminds us - is incisive, nuanced, politically astute, intellectually dexterous, and nothing short of indispensable in our current period of crisis. Reading The Politics of the Wretched forces us to leave behind our many presumptions of the uses and values of the affective and political force of ressentiment and recognize its capacity for ontological upheaval and mutation.