Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: Sensible Resentment in the Age of Sensibility: The Eighteenth Century 17
6. 2: Contentious Resentment: Acting Out Resentment in the Early Modern Past 33
7. 3: A Specter Is Haunting Europe: The Specter of a Resentful “People” 59
8. 4: The Nietzschean Moment 79
9. 5: The Rise and Decline of the “Resentment Paradigm” 91
10. 6: The Uses of Resentment 111
11. 7: The Two Sixties and Resentment: One Without, the Other With 137
12. 8: The Return of Resentment: Anatomizing a Contemporary Political Emotion 169
13. Conclusion: Thinking about Resentment Today 217
14. Notes 237
15. Index 275