dc.creator | Gonzalez Nunez, Humberto Jose | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-30T14:02:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-30T14:02:53Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-09-30 | |
dc.date.submitted | May 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154523 | |
dc.description.abstract | This project proposes a critical perspective on the emancipatory project outlined by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala through the lens of two main problems: (a) ressentiment and (b) social/political exclusion. In working within these two problems, I argue that one should have caution in considering Vattimo and Zabala’s project because their Eurocentric ideals create several problems for social/political emancipatory thought.
In order to elucidate the limitations of Vattimo and Zabala’s ideas, I suggest a return to Vattimo’s main theoretical source, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a careful reconstruction of Vattimo and Zabala’s construction of the category of the “weak.” Thus, I claim that the failure of Vattimo and Zabala’s emancipatory project is directly linked to a misreading of Nietzsche’s philosophy and the essentializing of the category of the “weak,” which leads their project in a direction that creates a distortion of the social/political situation they wish to describe. This leads Vattimo and Zabala to endorse an emancipatory strategy that in fact promises to exacerbate the social/political problems they aim to address. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Gianni Vattimo | en |
dc.subject | Santiago Zabala | en |
dc.subject | Social/Political Philosophy | en |
dc.subject | Exclusion | en |
dc.subject | Ressentiment | en |
dc.subject | Resentment | en |
dc.subject | Latin American Philosophy | en |
dc.subject | Enrique Dussel | en |
dc.subject | Santiago Castro-Gómez | en |
dc.subject | Postmodernism | en |
dc.title | What To Do After The 'Death of God'?: An Analysis of Resentment and Social/Political Exclusion | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Psychology | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Psychology | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Honors and Undergraduate Research | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Conway, Daniel W | |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.date.updated | 2015-06-30T14:02:53Z | |