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September 10, 2025Open Access

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Key Points

Ressentiment reveals how societal anger is intertwined with political complexities, shaping human behavior and responses.
Pankaj Mishra's insights in his book highlight anger as a product of existing political and economic structures, not just a personal feeling.
Max Scheler's foundational work lays the groundwork for understanding ressentiment in contemporary social critique.
The discussion connects historical perspectives with modern implications in psychological and political analyses.

Abstract

In his seminal analysis, Max Scheler defined ressentiment in the following terms: It is tricky concept that speaks to a tricky reality. Recently, it has been explored by Pankaj Mishra in his book, Age of Anger . In an accompanying article he observes: One of Mishra’s points is that the surfacing and spread of this anger is neither incidental nor accidental, it is deeply connected to prevailing political and economic structures.

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Christopher Hobson (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1e07554b1d3bfb60fce3e https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59350/2z6v6-54528

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