Description: "The rise of populism, cynicism, fanaticism and fundamentalism challenges us to reconsider the problem of ressentiment, characterized by Friedrich Nietzsche in 'On the Genealogy of Morals' (1887) as the self-poisoning of the will by interiorization of trauma in the form of a postponed and imaginary revenge. The concept of ressentiment is now making a comeback in political discourse"-- Back cover.
Brief description: Sjoerd van Tuinen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and co-founder of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge. His previous titles include: Deleuze and The Fold: A Critical Reader (2010), Speculative Art Histories (2017), Art History after Deleuze and Guattari (2017) and The Polemics of Ressentiment: Variations on Nietzsche (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Review Quotes: "A remarkably timely volume, exploring ressentiment as a problem of voluntary servitude and clearly articulating its critical and polemical value, in a good mix of contributions from prominent thinkers and early-career researchers. One of the richest and most coherently framed discussions of ressentiment in Continental philosophy in recent decades." --Oliver Davis, Co-Director, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, Warwick University, UK