Ressentiment / Max Scheler ; translation, Lewis B. Coser, William W. Holdheim ; introduction, Manfred S. Frings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheler, Max, 1874-1928.

Contributor:

Frings, Manfred S.

Series:

Marquette studies in philosophy ; #4.

Marquette studies in philosophy ; #4

Standardized Title:

Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resentment.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

172 p.

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph constitutes a response to the criticisms of Christianity outlined in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals , in which Nietzsche argues that Christianity is a 'slave revolt' of the weak-an attempt by the impotent to bring down the vitality of the capable nobility. Scheler's response is multi-faceted but centers on Nietzsche's failure to understand the nature of Christian love. Christianity is not a destructive enterprise trying to bring everyone down to the same low level of its impotent faithful, who must put their trust in the next world because they can get nowhere in this one. Rather, it attempts constructively to bring everyone up to a new level of human flourishing. Christianity's preoccupation with the poor, weak, and marginalized stems from a recognition, through divine love, of the miracle of God's creation and infinite possibilities present even in them.

Contents:

Lewis B. Coser William W. Holdheim

Manfred S. Frings

Prefatory Remarks

On the Phenomenology and

Sociology of

and Moral Value Judgment

Christian Morality and

and Modern Humanitarian Love

and Other Value Shifts in Modern Morality

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Text in English.

Translation of: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen. Enl. ed., 1915.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-167) and index.

ISBN:

0-87462-441-X

OCLC:

923650719