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The Politics of Resentment - A Genealogy (Paperback)
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The Politics of Resentment - A Genealogy (Paperback)
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In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of
nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,
there were a number of public discussions about the role that
rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was
the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate
American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at
the podium. A number of more recent school shootings have given
this debate a renewed sense of urgency, as have the continued use
of violent metaphors in public address and the dishonorable state
of America’s partisan gridlock. This conversation, unfortunately,
has been complicated by a collective cultural numbness to violence.
But that does not mean that fruitful conversations should not
continue. In The Politics of Resentment, Jeremy Engels picks up
this thread, examining the costs of violent political rhetoric for
our society and the future of democracy. The Politics of Resentment
traces the rise of especially violent rhetoric in American public
discourse by investigating key events in American history. Engels
analyzes how resentful rhetoric has long been used by public
figures in order to achieve political ends. He goes on to show how
a more devastating form of resentment started in the 1960s,
dividing Americans on issues of structural inequalities and foreign
policy. He discusses, for example, the rhetorical and political
contexts that have made the mobilization of groups such as
Nixon’s “silent majority” and the present Tea Party possible.
Now, in an age of recession and sequestration, many Americans
believe that they have been given a raw deal and experience
feelings of injustice in reaction to events beyond individual
control. With The Politics of Resentment, Engels wants to make
these feelings of victimhood politically productive by challenging
the toxic rhetoric that takes us there, by defusing it, and by
enabling citizens to have the kinds of conversations we need to
have in order to fight for life, liberty, and equality.
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