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...Stefan Dolgert Abstract American political discourse in the era of Tea Parties, Donald Trump, and ‘#BiackLivesMatter’ is suffused with Nietzschean ressentiment. Left critical theorist Wendy Brown’s ‘wounded attachments’ characterize civil rights protesters, multiculturalists, anti-tax activists...

... of a separate world from that of Belfort and the “criminal” excesses and expenditures of Wall Street. As a result of this conceptual maneuver, a mode of moralizing is enabled. In a fit of ressentiment, critics unleash their moralizing sentiments, single out and constitute guilty subjects, and hold...

... of the last decade. Ronald Reagan certainly made the most of them. Jokes concerning his intellect and his age by progressive opponents betray nothing more than a vulgar ressentiment. His eight years in office led to a transformation of the American economic landscape like nothing since the New Deal; it has...

... existence.4 The violence of the Proud Boys can also be understood, as in critical and psychoanalytic theory, as an experience of ressentiment, where melancholic Proud Boys lack something that they never had, and without direction or future, redirect their frustration and anger at myriad perceived enemies.s...

... of ressentiment wax and wane. The Marxist modes of alienation need to be resolved, but the latter modes need to be transfigured until more of us become attached to a world that enables us to be and yet is not highly predisposed to either our technical mastery or organic belonging. We need to pursue relations...

.... To him such Jlpale atheisms" express the spirit of ressentiment, a form of resentment arising not in response to a specific injury or harm received, but rather to the most basic conditions of your existence, whatever you understand those to be. Besides, the idea of total knowledge is an absurdity...

... relationship to race.3 The Tea Party's fury has also been interpreted as a right-wing populist form of Nietzschean ressentiment that blames elites above (Obama and Democrats) and the "threatening classes below" (poor blacks and immigrants) for their "misfortune, hardships and duress4 Other scholars emphasize...

... zvhile it in fact saturates our lives. Introduction "The power which presents itself as being under threat all the time, living in mortal danger, and thus merely defending itself, is the most dangerous kind of power, the very model of Nietzschean ressentiment and moralistic hypocrisy." Slavoj Zizek...

... by the communities in which one resides. Is the reversal of drag a viable public possibility in a violently homophobic community? Butler, Brown, and Connolly reject the essentialism of narrow identity politics as an inverted "ressentiment" of the Enlightenment desire for a universal, homogenized identity. They judge...

... a democratic future, Wolin argues, must establish a'standing opposition'to the 'inherently anti-democratic structure and norms' of the present moment.81 In other words, one does not identify anti-democratic forces in order to fashion a demagogic spirit of revenge or ressentiment, but in order to reckon...

...): "Ressentiment itself, if it should appear in the noble man, consummates and exhausts itself in an immediate reaction, and therefore does notEoison" (p. 39). 3Bromell, "Democratic Indignation," p. 290. 34 Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, p. 54. 35 Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, p. 223...

... and wish to "right wrongs." This contributes the "positive" side of the salience of victimhood and victimization. The "negative" aspect manifests itself in the human trait of ressentiment which Friedrich Nietzsche characterizes so poignantly in his On the Genealogy of Morals. 16 Both "positive...

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... America Great Again (New York: Threshold Editions, 2015). 72See Cory Wimberly, "Trump, Propaganda and the Politics of Ressentiment," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32, no. 1 (2018): 179-199. 73Trump, Crippled America, 2015, 128. 74Trump, Crippled America, 2015, 5. 75See httpswww.businessinsider.com...

... of "ressentiment, " most noticeably in the chapter on Gissing, he is able to project an interpretation of the ideologeme, which views it as being fundamentally oppositional. Each class fantasy is then effectively considered as a structure which can only be realized at the expense of its opposing class...