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An existentialist reading of revenge

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An existentialist reading of revenge

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An existentialist reading of revenge book

An existentialist reading of revenge

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An existentialist reading of revenge book

ByRupert Brodersen
BookEmotional Motives in International Relations

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 22
eBook ISBN 9781351175302

ABSTRACT

This chapter constructs revenge as a specific type of justice with a clear rationale and logic. It refers to this as an objective attitude justice and draws on established systems in the study of English Revenge Drama, illustrating how exactly revenge differs from retribution, which refer to as moral attitude justice. The chapter also draws on Friedrich Nietzsche insight into the psychology of revenge, and explores in depth, an overlooked existential component, which, arguably, provides the clearest distinguishing feature in revenge. It shows how a revenge gained through the "silent punishment" in Ressentiment is no less a revenge, even though there is a lack of visible suffering or excess. The objective attitude becomes enshrined, as the recipient of the "silent punishment" is left with a permanent "moral stain", albeit one visible only to the morally superior victim and those who come to share her perspective.

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