Ressentiment beyond Nietzsche and Améry: H. G. Adler between Literary Ressentiment and Divine Grace

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Towards a History of Ressentiment 1
5. Introduction: The Critical Focus of Re-thinking Ressentiment 24
6. The Question of Resentment in Western and Confucian Philosophy 33
7. Ressentiment as Moral Imperative: Jean Améry’s Nietzschean Revaluation of Victim Morality 53
8. Ressentiment beyond Nietzsche and Améry: H. G. Adler between Literary Ressentiment and Divine Grace 71
9. Contagion 87
10. Contemporary media coverage of protest movements in Germany and the charge of Ressentiment, with particular focus on “Stuttgart 21” 115
11. Specular Ressentiment San-Antonio, or the Art of Faking Resentment 133
12. Criticism or Ressentiment ? Literary Studies and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity 149
13. Ressentiment and Dissensus: The Place of Critique in the Contemporary Academy 167
14. About the Authors 207
15. Index of Names 209