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Conclusion

Resentment Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

Michelle Schwarze
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Resentment has a bad, but undeserved rap, in both political theory and popular culture today. But this book has shown that liberal political theorists were not always so dismissed of resentment as a moral motive because of its psychological features, most importantly, its basis in equal recognition. But I have also demonstrated the limitations of sympathetic resentment throughout the book. In this conclusion, I consider how commercial institutions like competition and free exchange might ameliorate our prospects for spectatorial resentment, as well as what the empirical research on resentment, empathy, and perspective-taking might teach us about how to improve sympathetic resentment. Finally, I reflect on what persistent injustice in liberal societies might suggest about the value of the theory of sympathetic resentment I have offered in this book.

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  • Conclusion
  • Michelle Schwarze, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book: Recognizing Resentment
  • Online publication: 02 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778473.006
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  • Conclusion
  • Michelle Schwarze, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book: Recognizing Resentment
  • Online publication: 02 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778473.006
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  • Conclusion
  • Michelle Schwarze, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book: Recognizing Resentment
  • Online publication: 02 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778473.006
Available formats
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