Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler

Tomelleri, Stefano

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“…Contrary to popular conceptions, desire does not appear to be an individually based experience; instead, evidence suggests that desire arises from others (Smith, 2009). Specifically, research and practice suggest that desire arises from interpersonal origins based on the perceived desire of others (Tomelleri, 2015). The evidence suggests that desire possesses external origins-desire is mimetic, based on imitating and copying others (Girard, 1977).…”

Section: Desirementioning

confidence: 84%

“…Hence, the desire does not originate from one's own conscious thought, but it arises and becomes focused toward a specific product simply because the product is perceived as being desired by another (Stirling, 2004). As Tomelleri (2015) says, "The life of our desires is a life shared with the desires of others" (p. 72).…”

Section: The Mimetic Nature Of Desirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…27, 28) Therefore, the worth of an item is not the physical benefits provided by it but what another person is perceived to have gained from the item. A product viewed to be desired by another person is perceived as possessing the very personhood of the desiring individual (Tomelleri, 2015).…”

Section: The Target Of Mimetic Desirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mimetic desire is inherently competitive (Tomelleri, 2015), giving rise to the well-recognized inherently competitive nature of consumption (Jardine, 2004;Pooler, 2003;Schor, 2004). Desire seeks to acquire the nature of another.…”

Section: The Competition Nature Of Mimetic Desirementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…It was exemplified with the identity politics that was being articulated on behalf of oppressed groups, influential at the time, spreading from Western universities and beyond. The experience of living in an age of ressentiment was articulated once again in the 2010s (Dolgert 2016;Tomelleri 2017). This time, writers tended to see ressentiment as one main cause for the rise of authoritarian populism, organized around a core of predominantly white working-class males on both sides of the Atlantic (Dolgert 2016;Harper and Schaaf 2018;Oudenampsen 2018;Gidron and Hall 2017).…”

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The Pleasure of Punishment

Hörnqvist¹

2021

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Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment. Contents Acknowledgements vi Introduction: articulating the problematic of desire 1 The disappearance of pleasure? 2 The impossible flight from passion 3 The ambiguous desire for recognition 4 The paradox of tragic pleasure 5 Two paradigms of enjoyment 6 Ressentiment: moral elevation through punishment 7 Obscene enjoyment: between power and prohibition Index This book has a long prehistory and I am grateful to all people who have offered input along the way, starting with David Scott, who, as the editor of the anthology "Why Prison?", encouraged me to think further on the Foucauldian idea of the productivity of power, and thus initially set me on this track. It became a chapter on the pleasure of punishment, specifically focused on the prison and the middle class. When Tom Sutton at Routledge asked me to write a book on the theme a few years ago at a criminology conference, the task first struck me as too daunting. I also needed much more time, more material and a wider scope. My colleagues at the department of criminology at Stockholm university have been a great support; especially thanks to Henrik Tham, Anders Nilsson and Janne Flyghed for useful comments on early drafts. Intelligibility has been the key challenge throughout, and they have reminded me of that. Being granted the RJ Sabbatical 2018, by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (SAB18-0161:1), to write a research synthesis on the pleasure of punishment, entirely relieved me of teaching obligations for a full year, which I spent re-reading works in the philosophical tradition and making notes. The grant also allowed me to spend the autumn of 2019 as a visiting professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology in the London...

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Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler

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