The Psychology of Ressentiment

Elgat, Guy

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“…This argument indicates a special interest from the hierarchy to protect and take sides with superpower people. In line with it, it is also mentioned by Elgat (2017) from his interpretation of Nitzsche's opinion about the equality of power that justice can be achieved only when both sides are under equal compulsion. If one is stronger than the other, the weak must accept the consequence.…”

Section: Questioning Woman's Rights In Modern Societymentioning

confidence: 81%

“…There is no longer an equal right for them in getting justice. Equality of power is thus a condition for the emergence of the whole sphere of justice (Elgat, 2017). This argument indicates a special interest from the hierarchy to protect and take sides with superpower people.…”

Section: Questioning Woman's Rights In Modern Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This view leads to the argument of unbalanced justice. Furthermore, Elgat (2017) wrote that law comes after justice. This statement strengthens a polemic of the inequality law for a certain group of people.…”

Section: Questioning Woman's Rights In Modern Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Woman’s Vengeance on Gender and Social Injustice: A Post-Feminist Reading in Maman Suherman’s PeRempuan (Perlawanan Perempuan dari Sudut Gender dan Sosial: Kajian Feminis Pada Novel PeRempuan Karya Maman Suherman)

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2023

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This study aims to describe women's resistance from a gender and social perspective in the novel Women by Maman Suherman. This qualitative research focuses on the postfeminism theory of Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff. The results of the research show that institutions and values in modern society are seen as weak and old-fashioned because they are still based on women's gender identity; regulate the behavior of women to be accepted in society. Women's revenge through education and calm attitude is then interpreted as a response, reaction, and resistance to obtain equality in humanity.

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Section: Questioning Woman's Rights In Modern Societymentioning

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2023

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“…Having initially accepted revenge as a means for self-preservation and defending honour in his most 'English' book, Human, All Too Human (2005[1878), Nietzsche soon polemicised against it, as it would legitimate anti-Semites and anarchists, among whom ressentiment blooms. The defence of ressentiment by Dühring is an attempt 'to sanctify revenge with the term justice' (Nietzsche, 2006a: II, 11;III, 14; see also Elgat, 2017). The main problem for Nietzsche is not the risk of infinitisation inherent to revenge or the lex talionis, as it was for Smith and Butler.…”

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The resentment-ressentiment complex: a critique of liberal discourse

Tuinen

2020

Global Discourse

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This article offers a critique of a widespread political discourse that distinguishes ‘resentment’ from ‘ressentiment’, legitimating the former and dismissing the latter. This distinction not only incorporates some reactive sentiments at the cost of the depoliticisation of others, but also obscures the conditions of political action and judgement as such. Why is it necessary to constantly protect the socio-political order from the risk of moral corruption in these terms, and for whom? First, a historical distinction is made between three problems that play a key role in the evaluation of the reactive attitudes: their rationality, their authenticity, and their justness. It is then argued that the first two problems are ill-posed. These problems concern differences in degree, and are therefore always prone to the relativism of what, retrospectively, can be called ‘the resentment-ressentiment complex’. The true problem with retributive passions concerns a difference in kind, not between resentment and ressentiment, but between active affects and passive or reactive affects. This Nietzschean ‘demoralisation’ of the problem of reactive attitudes by means of a historico-systematic reorientation leads to the concluding claim that while moral sentiments and political actions are always entangled, only the latter constitute the ground of social justice.

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The Resentment– Ressentiment Complex: A Critique of Liberal Discourse

Tuinen

2023

The Politics of Negative Emotions

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This article offers a critique of a widespread political discourse that distinguishes 'resentment' from 'ressentiment', legitimating the former and dismissing the latter. This distinction not only incorporates some reactive sentiments at the cost of the depoliticisation of others, but also obscures the conditions of political action and judgement as such. Why is it necessary to constantly protect the socio-political order from the risk of moral corruption in these terms, and for whom? First, a historical distinction is made between three problems that play a key role in the evaluation of the reactive attitudes: their rationality, their authenticity, and their justness. It is then argued that the first two problems are ill-posed. These problems concern differences in degree, and are therefore always prone to the relativism of what, retrospectively, can be called 'the resentment-ressentiment complex'. The true problem with retributive passions concerns a difference in kind, not between resentment and ressentiment, but between active affects and passive or reactive affects. This Nietzschean 'demoralisation' of the problem of reactive attitudes by means of a historico-systematic reorientation leads to the concluding claim that while moral sentiments and political actions are always entangled, only the latter constitute the ground of social justice.

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The Psychology of Ressentiment

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Woman’s Vengeance on Gender and Social Injustice: A Post-Feminist Reading in Maman Suherman’s PeRempuan (Perlawanan Perempuan dari Sudut Gender dan Sosial: Kajian Feminis Pada Novel PeRempuan Karya Maman Suherman)

Woman’s Vengeance on Gender and Social Injustice: A Post-Feminist Reading in Maman Suherman’s PeRempuan (Perlawanan Perempuan dari Sudut Gender dan Sosial: Kajian Feminis Pada Novel PeRempuan Karya Maman Suherman)

The resentment-ressentiment complex: a critique of liberal discourse

The Resentment– Ressentiment Complex: A Critique of Liberal Discourse

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