Resentment, hatred, and politics

a nietzschean interpretation

Abstract

The present work constitutes a propaedeutic study about the connection between Nietzsche’s treatment of ressentiment as an interpretative perspective and the problem of hatred linked to the contemporary political sphere. In this sense, and taking into account the premise that Nietzsche’s genealogy can offer a way of apprehending the meanings manifested by the phenomenon of hatred in the current political situation, the methodological path of this study starts from the analysis of resentment in Nietzsche and hatred as its operative; then, based on this interpretation, it examines discursive and performative aspects arising from the current political scenario. Through this meander, proposes to build an argument based on the establishment of some hypothetical hermeneutical keys from which it intends to interpret certain choices, practices and discourses that have been making up a recognized slice of the political environment of which we are contemporary.