Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment

Revenge and Justice in "On the Genealogy of Morals"
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-37237-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 287 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Ressentiment—the hateful desire for revenge—plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality’s values. Ressentiment, however, has not enjoyed a thorough treatment in the secondary literature. This book brings it sharply into focus and provides the first detailed examination of Nietzsche’s psychology of ressentiment. Unlike other books on the Genealogy, it uses ressentiment as a key to the Genealogy and focuses on the intriguing relationship between ressentiment and justice. It shows how ressentiment, despite its blindness to justice, gives rise to moral justice—the central target of Nietzsche’s critique. This critique notwithstanding, the Genealogy shows Nietzsche’s enduring commitment to the virtue of non-moral justice: a commitment that grounds his provocative view that moral justice spells the ‘end of justice’. The result provides a novel view of Nietzsche's moral psychology in the Genealogy, his critique of morality, and his views on justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elgat, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Ressentiment as the ‘Home of Justice’?

2. The Psychology of Ressentiment

3. Resentiment’s Injustice

4. Slave Revolt, Self-Deception, the Free Subject

5. Interlude: Bad Conscience, Guilt, and the Priestly Ascetic Ideal

6. The Emergence of Moral Justice

7. A Genealogy of the Capacity to be Just to Others

Über Autor(innen)

Guy Elgat is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and The Journal of Nietzsche Studies.