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The Philosophical Foundation of Alt-Right Politics and Ressentiment is a timely book that analyses how the principles of current American politics have developed. William Remley asserts that the philosophy of Traditionalism is central to the alt-right's understanding of itself and explores the perceived threat to social status that seems to have propelled the movement to its prominent place in American politics. Remley uses Social Dominance Theory and the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche to look at how group formation and hierarchies have given rise to authoritarian leadership and how a tendency that can be best described and explained through Nietzsche's concept of ressentiment led to the anti-foreign sentiment that rules American politics today. --

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 What is Anarchism? -- Chapter 1 Anarchism: Towards an Understanding -- Anarchism: An Overview -- Varieties of Anarchism -- Philosophical Anarchism -- Individualist Anarchism -- Social Anarchism -- Clark's Four-Prong Approach -- Chapter 2 Anarchist Notions of Human Nature -- William Godwin -- Max Stirner -- The Foundation for Sartre's Notion of Human Nature -- Part 2 The 'Golden Age': Nineteenth-Century Anarchism of Proudhon and Bakunin -- Introduction -- The Restoration -- The 'July Monarchy' -- The Second Republic -- The Second Empire and Napoleon III -- Chapter 3 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: His Life and Political Philosophy -- Proudhon's Early Life -- Proudhon's Political Philosophy: Anarchy -- Human Nature -- Proudhon's Historical Viewpoint -- Chapter 4 Proudhon's Thoughts on Authority and his 'Solution to the Social Problem' -- Proudhon and Authority -- Proudhon's Proposed Solution -- Chapter 5 Mikhail Bakunin and Revolutionary Anarchism -- The Development of Bakunin's Political Philosophy -- Bakunin's Early Philosophical Positions -- Bakunin's Historical Materialism -- The State -- Part 3 Jean-Paul Sartre and Twentieth-Century Anarchism: 1914–1960 -- Introduction -- French Political and Social Life: 1945–1960 -- Chapter 6 The Early Development of Sartre's Political Anarchism -- The Beginning of an Anarchist Political Philosophy -- The Dialectics of Nature -- Chapter 7 The Evolution of Sartre's Anarchism after the Second World War -- Sartre's Relationship with the PCF -- A More Refined Development of Sartre's Political Philosophy -- Part 4 Sartre's Political Manifesto: The Critique of Dialectical Reason -- Introduction -- Overview of the Critique -- Methodology -- The Dialectic -- Need -- The Third

Jean-Paul Sartre was among the first to address the 'strange silence' on the Jewish question in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. In doing so, he influenced an entire generation of thinkers concerning not only anti-Semitism specifically, but all forms of racism generally. Yet what are the antecedents to Sartre's polemic in Anti-Semite and Jew? In this paper, I argue that Nietzsche's man of ressentiment forms the structural foundation for Sartre's penetrating psychological analysis of the anti-Semite. Moreover, it is also my argument that both Nietzsche and Sartre advance similar solutions to the problem of ressentiment, which can only come about by overcoming the situation we are thrown into through a will to power. But this also means understanding oneself and in the end 'making oneself in the face of all, and against all.'