Online Hating as Modern Manifestation of Nietzschean Ressentiment
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Maria Sinelnikova
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6085-6087
Published 2022-10-19
https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2022.102.8
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Keywords

haters
ressentiment
Nietzsche
“sour grapes” syndrome
“crab mentality”

How to Cite

Sinelnikova, M. (2022) “Online Hating as Modern Manifestation of Nietzschean Ressentiment”, Problemos, 102, pp. 105–117. doi:10.15388/Problemos.2022.102.8.

Abstract

The article analyses the modern phenomenon of hating in the light of the Nietzschean concept “ressentiment”. It is concluded, that hating can be considered as a kind of the ressentiment experience. This confirms the legitimacy of the “hating ressentiment” concept introduction, which identifies a hater as a person of ressentiment. Hater uses his destructive potential to harass online and persecute everyone whose position or opinion he/she does not share. When all the resources of unfounded criticism of the hater are exhausted, he/she resorts to ressentiment, online. Due to this, ressentiment acquires a new form of expression, namely, hating ressentiment, which is defined as a radical and acute form of ressentiment, corresponding to the form of hatred with which a hater treats everyone in whose place he/she would like to be.

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