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The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment

The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment

Zalloua, Zahi

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 1350422886
ISBN13: 9781350422889
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Politics of the Wretched argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective No. Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying ressentiment - private and public use - by substituting ressentiment for reason. This reinterpretation argues for a public use of ressentiment, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause.

A public use of ressentiment rails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists on ressentiment's generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective No. Reframing ressentiment as a tool to oppose the evils of capitalism, anti-Blackness, and neocolonialism, it both alarms the liberal gatekeepers of the status quo and promises to energize the anti-racist Left in its ongoing struggles for universal justice and emancipation.

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