Video and Podcast Resources On Max Scheler's Ressentiment

nineteen lectures on this short work of ethics and moral psychology

Max Scheler is an important and often overlooked phenomenologist from the early 20th century whose works I first encountered in graduate school. I was fortunate to go to study in one of the few departments here in the US where you might not only read his works, but study them with a specialist, Ken Stikkers. After I graduated, when they were relevant I’d slip some of Scheler’s works and ideas into certain of my classes, and I’ve also published a bit on him as well.

There are a number of works by Scheler one could read as entry-points into his thought. One that I particularly like is his short book Ressentiment, which is a critical engagement with Friedrich Nietzsche, who developed that concept in several of his works. Scheler reinterprets ressentiment in light of his phenomenological analyses, asking whether Nietzsche got matters fundamentally right, or whether a fuller approach to this affective and social dynamic needs to be developed.

I produced a set of core concept videos going through the first three parts of the work, and recently took each of those videos and converted them into Sadler’s Lectures podcast episodes. Later on down the line, when I can carve out the time, I am hoping to go back to parts 4 and 5 of the work and produce the same kind of lectures on those as well.

For the time being, I have 19 lectures on the work available for those who would like to watch or listen to them. Here they are:

Part 1

• A Description of Ressentiment - watch video | listen to podcast

• Sources Of Ressentiment - watch video | listen to podcast

• Value Blindness and Delusion - watch video | listen to podcast

• Repression and Ressentiment - watch video | listen to podcast

• Ressentiment, Comparison, and Valuation - watch video | listen to podcast

• Spiritual Varieties of Ressentiment - watch video | listen to podcast

• Situations Charged With Ressentiment - watch video | listen to podcast

• Moral Judgements and Systems - watch video | listen to podcast

Part 2

• Ressentiment And Moral Value Judgement - watch video | listen to podcast

Part 3

• Pre-Christian Greek Notions Of Love - watch video | listen to podcast

• The Christian Conception Of Love - watch video | listen to podcast

• Life, Love, and Sacrifice - watch video | listen to podcast

• The Christian God and Love - watch video | listen to podcast

• Ressentiment and Altruism - watch video | listen to podcast

• Sources Of Ascetic Actions and Judgments - watch video | listen to podcast

• Does Jesus Represent Ressentiment? - watch video | listen to podcast

• Love, Help, and Altruism - watch video | listen to podcast

• Nietzsche's Errors About Christianity - watch video | listen to podcast

• Christian Love, Sacrifice, and Justice - watch video | listen to podcast

So there you have them. 19 lectures in both video and podcast format that will help you work through those first three parts of the work! I’m hoping later on in the year to have lectures available covering the entire work.