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Emotional motives in international relations : rage, rancour and revenge / Rupert Brodersen

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Brodersen, Rupert
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
vi, 166 pages ; 25 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: The age of rage? -- The foundation of rage in Western thought -- Rage-Binary Theory -- 1.Experiencing negative emotions: moral attitude anger versus objective attitude rage -- Introduction -- Theories of emotions -- Neurology of human aggression -- Moral foundation of negative emotions -- Typology of negative emotions -- Moral attitude emotions: resentment and anger -- Objective attitude emotions: Ressentiment and rage -- Conclusion -- 2.Rage in myth and metaphor -- Introduction -- Nomos: a divine order of man-made laws -- Nomos in Euripides's Hecuba -- Rage in Homer's Iliad -- Erinyes, guardians of nomos -- Pollution in ancient Greece -- Modern pollution: political violence as disease -- Conclusion -- 3.Moralizing rage: mandates in group violence -- Introduction -- Group emotionality in IR scholarship -- The natural state between groups: moral attitude or objective attitude? -- Objective attitude group threats -- False legitimacy in intergroup relations -- Moralizing language in group violence -- Moral mandates in violence: demonization versus dehumanization -- Conclusion -- 4.Rage of the powerless: Ressentiment as "silent punishment" -- Introduction -- Interpreting Ressentiment -- Nietzsche's investigation of "morality as punishment" -- Lambs and birds of prey -- Priests and knights -- Ressentiment in the political sciences -- Nietzsche on defeat -- Conclusion -- 5.An existentialist reading of revenge -- Introduction -- Origins of justice -- Revenge versus retribution: objective attitude justice and moral attitude justice -- The objective in revenge -- The reciprocity of permanence in revenge -- Permanence in Ressentiment -- Conclusion -- 6.A Carthaginian peace: the early American occupation of West Germany, 1945--1947 -- Introduction -- A Carthaginian peace -- The moral attitude pushback -- German reactions: resentment versus Ressentiment -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Erinyes beneath Turtle Bay?.
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9780815386674 hardcover
0815386672 hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased with funds from the Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs; 2018
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Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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