TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of resentment and the tyranny of the minority
T2 - Rethinking victimage for resentful times
AU - Engels, Jeremy
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The victimage ritual is a familiar concept to rhetorical scholars. Victimage, as understood by Kenneth Burke and Robert L. Ivie, is a curative rhetoric aimed at easing the guilt associated with symbolic life. By putting Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the victimage ritual as enumerated in On the Genealogy of Morals in conversation with Burke and Ivie, this essay expands received wisdom by arguing that victimage in presidential rhetoric is often as much about prolonging resentment and guilt as it is at easing these emotions.
AB - The victimage ritual is a familiar concept to rhetorical scholars. Victimage, as understood by Kenneth Burke and Robert L. Ivie, is a curative rhetoric aimed at easing the guilt associated with symbolic life. By putting Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the victimage ritual as enumerated in On the Genealogy of Morals in conversation with Burke and Ivie, this essay expands received wisdom by arguing that victimage in presidential rhetoric is often as much about prolonging resentment and guilt as it is at easing these emotions.
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U2 - 10.1080/02773941003785652
DO - 10.1080/02773941003785652
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79952882297
SN - 0277-3945
VL - 40
SP - 303
EP - 325
JO - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
JF - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -