TY - BOOK AU - Fareld,Victoria AU - Finch,Helen AU - Gallagher,Mary AU - Jeannerod,Dominique AU - Knoop,Christine A. AU - Mannweiler,Caroline AU - Nelson,Eric S. AU - Riou,Jeanne TI - Re-thinking Ressentiment: On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics T2 - Kultur- und Medientheorie SN - 9783837621280 AV - JC328.3 U1 - 179.8 22/ger PY - 2016///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Ethics KW - Resentment KW - Criticism KW - Cultural History KW - Cultural Studies KW - Cultural Theory KW - Culture KW - Dissent KW - Envy KW - General Literature Studies KW - Literature KW - Power KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Towards a History of Ressentiment --; Introduction: The Critical Focus of Re-thinking Ressentiment --; The Question of Resentment in Western and Confucian Philosophy --; Ressentiment as Moral Imperative: Jean Améry’s Nietzschean Revaluation of Victim Morality --; Ressentiment beyond Nietzsche and Améry: H. G. Adler between Literary Ressentiment and Divine Grace --; Contagion --; Contemporary media coverage of protest movements in Germany and the charge of Ressentiment, with particular focus on “Stuttgart 21” --; Specular Ressentiment San-Antonio, or the Art of Faking Resentment --; Criticism or Ressentiment ? Literary Studies and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity --; Ressentiment and Dissensus: The Place of Critique in the Contemporary Academy --; About the Authors --; Index of Names; restricted access N2 - The charge of »Ressentiment« can in today's world - less from traditionally conservative quarters than from the neo-positivist discourses of particular forms of liberalism - be used to undermine the argumentative credibility of political opponents, dissidents and those who call for greater »justice«. The essays in this volume draw on the broad spectrum of cultural discourse on »Ressentiment«, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Starting with its conceptual genesis, the essays also show contemporary nuances of »Ressentiment« as well as its influence on literary and philosophical discourse in the 20th century UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839421284?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839421284 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839421284/original ER -