On Resentment : Past and Present

✍ Scribed by Bernardino Fantini, Bernardino Fantini, Dolores Martin Moruno, Javier Moscoso

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Gericault's Le Radeau de La Meduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a "gravitational force", namely as a moment in which the desire to be other was politically legitimised by means of the ideal of a meritocratic society. From Adam Smith's definition as social passion linked with justice, to Nietzsche's interpretation of resentment as a pathological symptom, this emotion has also shaped a plethora of social movements forging their identity out of hatred mixed with fear and indignation. This volume seeks to provide new insights into the history of emotions by showing how resentment is a cultural experience that contributes to a better understanding of the differences between the past and the present world

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Table of contents
introduction
part i
chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
part ii
chapter four
chapter five
chapter six
part iii
chapter seven
chapter eight
chapter nine
part iv
chapter ten
chapter eleven
chapter twelve
part v
chapter thirteen
chapter fourteen
chapter fifteen
contributors.

✦ Subjects

Resentment. PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.