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Leadership by Resentment - From Ressentiment to Redemption (Paperback)
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Leadership by Resentment - From Ressentiment to Redemption (Paperback)
Series: New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
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What do such disparate events as Occupy Wall Street, Iran's Islamic
revolution and Venezuela's socialist revolution have in common?
Often, resentment based on past grievances or shortcomings seems to
emerge from the depths of individual and collective psyches over
the course of such emotionally charged movements. This resentment,
and the related philosophical concept of ressentiment, can have a
profound impact on the course of history and on the role of
leadership within societies. Expanding on the concept of
ressentiment, this book addresses the importance of emotions in
historical events. The author explores the conditions that foster
the development of ressentiment, the role of leaders and followers,
and the phases of the phenomenon as it encourages destructive
behaviors such as murder and suicide. Often considered an incurable
disease with destructive social and political repercussions, it is
a core motive for acts of terrorism, revolutions, social upheavals
and processes of toxic leadership. The author puts forth a model
that helps to describe certain historical processes led by
ressentiment, like some revolutions and terrorist acts, and to
distinguish them from other movements that are usually treated as
similar (e.g., independence revolutions). The book then tackles a
seemingly impossible question: Can we find a cure for this powerful
and destructive impulse? With care and deliberation, the author
demonstrates the power of ethical leadership, recognition and
redemption as positive unifying forces during human conflicts. A
philosophical endeavor to understand events from the Boston Tea
Party to Occupy Wall Street, from the French revolution to Hugo
Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this book will be fascinating
reading for scholars and students of the social sciences and
humanities and those with a particular interest in leadership.
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