.... While rebellion comes up with new values (“sweetness in grapes is no longer desirable”), ressentiment remains stuck in the old framework (“those grapes are not sweet but sour”) ( Social Theory , 210 ). 60. The “cunning of ressentimental reason,” to use Joseph Vogl's words, “diverts our attention...

... power. The master philosopher of aggrieved power, of course, is Nietzsche. There is, to begin with, his account of how suffering, especially the suffering of humiliation, when routed through ressentiment, becomes moralizing condemnation of the object it holds responsible. In his formulation...

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..., as in the book of Jonah, engages in “the intricate traffic in pardons: the sinner who submits to him receives mercy.” 72 But in this context one could also remember that self-described “Shylock,” Jean Améry, and his enduring, fleshly ressentiment against a world—white, Christian, colonial—that so easily...

... of equality. In Brown's analysis, “the will that ‘took to hurting,’” or the attachment to one's past subordination, allows for the realization of an outward-turning revenge. In my account, ressentiment takes the form of a more passive, jealousy-inducing triumph, showing off to the former oppressor...

... to political structures” (360), while at the same time remaining vigilant against such seduction, let us also recall that such a task also necessarily ignores the transcendental whiff of its own formalism (whether couched in generational terms or presented as a globalized ressentiment that, despite all its...