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SUMMARY:Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nOpen to currently enrolled undergraduates\, graduate students\, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. \nRessentiment is a term of art in philosophy and social theory for the psychological pathology of self-loathing that the human person may experience vis-à-vis an other who is imagined to be stronger\, more noble\, or “higher.” Friedrich Nietzsche famously associated ressentiment with the overturn of the ancient moral order and its replacement with Christian morality – such that glory\, honor\, and magnificence were replaced with humility\, turning the other cheek\, and poverty of spirit.  Nietzsche’s understanding of ressentiment is associated as well with his broader critique of modernity\, modern institutions like democracy and the market\, and modern sociality as reflected in notions such as mass society and Thus Spoke Zarathustra’s “last man.” \nThe phenomenologist and social theorist\, Max Scheler\, seized on the idea of ressentiment for his own critique of modernity\, but rejected Nietzsche’s argument that its provenance lies in Christianity. Ressentiment\, Scheler perceived\, is indeed at the heart of the crisis of modernity\, but its ubiquity in the contemporary world should be traced to modern institutions\, like the market and modern democracy\, and not to Christianity. Christianity\, he thought\, is fundamentally incompatible with the psychology of ressentiment and offers the clearest hope for reversing its danger. To what extent\, though\, does Scheler’s hope extend to the institution of democracy? \nAmong those directly influenced by Scheler’s thought were Edith Stein\, Waldemar Gurian\, Romano Guardini\, Roman Ingarden\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, and Karol Wojtyla. \nREQUIRED READINGS \n\nMax Scheler\, Ressentiment\, tr. Lewis A. Coser\, Milwaukee\, Marquette University Press\, 1994. Chs. 3 & 4.\n\nSECONDARY READINGS \n\nFriedrich Nietzsche\, The Genealogy of Morals\, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale\, New York\, Random House\, 1967. First Essay\, especially sections 8-14. Cf.\nFriedrich Nietzsche\, Thus Spoke Zarathustra \,tr. Adrian Del Caro\, Cambridge University Press\, 2006.  “Zarathustra’s Prologue\,” “Of the Flies of the Marketplace\,” and “Of the Tarantulas.”\n\nSCHEDULE \n1:30pm            Coffee & Tea\n2:00pm            Welcome\n2:15pm            Session I\n3:30pm            Break\n3:45pm            Session II\n5:00pm            End\, Wine & Cheese Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-08-master-class-on-ressentiment-democracy-stephen-schneck/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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