LEADER 03654nam 2200613 450 001 9910792466703321 005 20230120043906.0 010 $a1-62895-243-1 010 $a1-60917-471-2 035 $a(CKB)2660000000035224 035 $a(EBL)2196786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001546476 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16140900 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001546476 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14796554 035 $a(PQKB)10960687 035 $a(OCoLC)919104771 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47402 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3433760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11091498 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2196786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3433760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2196786 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000035224 100 $a20150903h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRessentiment $ereflections on mimetic desire and society /$fStefano Tomelleri 210 1$aEast Lansing :$cMichigan State University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 225 1 $aBreakthroughs in mimetic theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61186-184-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index. 327 $aForeword / by Rene Girard -- Foreword / by Paul Dumouchel -- Introduction -- 1. The revolt of the slaves at the masters? banquet -- 2. Bourgeois philanthropy -- 3. The surprise box of ressentiment -- 4. The last of the scapegoats -- 5. The mimetic nature of our ressentiment -- 6. Toward a sociology of ressentiment -- 7. From victim-playing to the ethics of ressentiment -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book is a response to Friedrich Nietzsche?s provocative question: How much and how does ressentiment condition our daily life? During the twentieth century we witnessed veritable eruptions of this insidious emotion, and we are still witnesses of its proliferation at various levels of society. This book aims to explore, according to Rene Girard?s mimetic theory, the anthropological and social assumptions that make up ressentiment and to investigate its genesis. The analysis of ressentiment shows that this emotion evolves from mimetic desire: it is an affective experience that people have when a rival denies them opportunities or valuable resources (including status) that they consider to be socially accessible. It is a specific figure of mimetic desire that is typical of contemporary society, where the equality that is proclaimed at the level of values contrasts with striking inequalities of power and access to material resources. This dichotomy generates increasing tension between highly competitive and egalitarian mimetic desires and growing social inequalities. The ressentiment is ambiguous, and its ambiguity is that of mimetic desire itself, which we cannot dismiss from our lives. In that it provides occasions of conflict and baseness, ressentiment can fuel violence, discord, and injustice, but it also can open opportunities for growth and justice, and for inventing institutions that are better adapted to the transformations of our contemporary society. 410 0$aBreakthroughs in mimetic theory. 606 $aDesire (Philosophy) 606 $aResentment 615 0$aDesire (Philosophy) 615 0$aResentment. 676 $a192.2003984664 700 $aTomelleri$b Stefano$0486807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792466703321 996 $aRessentiment$93825237 997 $aUNINA