Zahi Zalloua
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment
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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.
- Publication date: 19 March 2026
- Page count: 280
- Dimensions: Height 155 mm; Width 235 mm; Thickness 19 mm
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781350422889
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