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Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Thursday, November 30, 2017

“Ressentiment, Power, and Values”
 

Abstract:

In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche formulates a critique of moral values that is grounded in their psychological history. The phenomenon of ressentiment plays a central role in this critique. Yet, precisely what sort of psychological state ressentiment is, what it reveals about human psychology, and why it is well suited to affect beliefs about value, remain sources of considerable perplexity. In the lecture, I sketch out some new answers to these questions.