{"product_id":"the-politics-of-the-wretched-race-reason-and-ressentiment-9781350422858","title":"The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Politics of the Wretched\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e argues for \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e's generative negativity, prompting a shift from \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e as a personal expression of frustration to \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e as a collective \"No\".\u003c\/b\u003e Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e - private and public use - by substituting \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e for reason. This reinterpretation argues for a public use of \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A public use of \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e rails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists on \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e's generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift from \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e as a personal expression of frustration to \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e as a collective \"No\". Reframing \u003ci\u003eressentiment\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZahi Zalloua\u003c\/b\u003e is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eUniversal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSolidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeing Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901508522258,"sku":"9781350422858","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4fe55803-f688-4f63-9d05-2fbcbc673331.jpg?v=1738428060","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-the-wretched-race-reason-and-ressentiment-9781350422858","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}