This book examines Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality to clarify the claim that Christian morality represents an act of revenge, and to analyse Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as a moral emotion.
This book examines Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality to clarify the claim that Christian morality represents an act of revenge, and to analyse Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as a moral emotion.
Bernard Reginster is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His focuses on issues in 19th century ethics and moral psychology and issues arising from psychoanalysis, particularly on self-other relations, on which he has begun to publish papers as well. He is the author of The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Harvard University Press, 2006).
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Introduction 1: Genealogy and Critique 2: Ressentiment 3: Good and Evil 4: Guilt and Punishment 5: Asceticism
