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Girard Contests Nietzsche: a Case of Misplaced Resentment - Dionysos and the Crucified.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Girard Contests Nietzsche: a Case of Misplaced Resentment - Dionysos and the Crucified./
Author:	Blaskow, Nikolai David.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
Description:	314 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11A.
Subject:	Violence. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29101158
ISBN:	9798426890558

Girard Contests Nietzsche: a Case of Misplaced Resentment - Dionysos and the Crucified.
Blaskow, Nikolai David.

Girard Contests Nietzsche: a Case of Misplaced Resentment - Dionysos and the Crucified. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 314 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bangor University (United Kingdom), 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The focal point of this thesis is the psychopathological notion of ressentiment. It was a term, which arose in Alexis de Tocqueville's France appropriated and pressed into service in a distinctive almost petulant way by a newly emerging German nation shaped and forged by Prussia's Otto von Bismarck and Wihelm Il's Realpolitik. It designated an attitude of scornful superiority in the face of other strong colonial competitors such as France, Belgium, Italy, Britain, and America. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) identified it as the root of all evil, as infecting an emerging modernity and, with it, every human discipline (including philosophy and science), agency (including religion and politics), and every person (including himself). Ressentiment, as Nietzsche saw it, turned people away from the things that really matter, and so condemned them to ask questions that he believed would finally prove to be irrelevant to the main concerns of life.Ressentiment is also the pivotal point on which the contest between Nietzsche and the mimetic theorist Rene Girard (1923-2015) is overturned. It provides a useful focal point to compare and contrast their apparently opposing viewpoints, out of which, we discover a powerful reconciliation of their thought that gives rise to important insights into our own violent and unpredictable times. In this study, I argue that when the insights of Girard's mimetic and scapegoat theory are combined with Nietzsche's understanding of the psychopathology of ressentiment we are furnished with powerful diagnostic tools to unravel the cycles of contagion and violence that are entangled in human experience.The study begins with an exploration of Nietzsche's psychopathology of ressentiment and ascertains whether he became a victim of that same psychopathology. Here I counteract claims made by Girardian scholars who perpetuate the idea that Nietzsche's mental state (his 'madness') was present from the start thereby compromising the integrity of his life's work. I consider the extent to which Nietzsche's ideas about ressentiment have a vital and effective traction in the 21st century.I then address Girard's questionable use of literature to support the mimetic and scapegoat theory, which underpins his idea of ressentiment, and how his privileging of Christianity and his perceived pessimistic view of human nature sets him apart from Nietzschean philosophy and secular discourse more generally. There I argue that Girard profoundly misunderstands Nietzsche's ideas of the 'Anti-Christ' and the 'death of God', a misunderstanding that has significant repercussions for his wider treatment of the Nietzsche project.While the first part of my thesis examines the respective theories of ressentiment propagated by Nietzsche and Girard, the second part seeks to combine their essential elements and to demonstrate the usefulness of this combination for making sense of human behavior. Here I test my theories against two case studies: the Rwandan Genocide of the last century and William Shakespeare's The Tempest as the Bard's most mature analysis of the Sectarian Catholic-Protestant Wars and its impact on the national psyche.

ISBN: 9798426890558Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Violence.

Girard Contests Nietzsche: a Case of Misplaced Resentment - Dionysos and the Crucified.
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