Resentimiento y verdad. Sobre la réplica de Améry a Nietzsche

Abstract

In his Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche located the weak´s resentment on the basis of the moralization of the strong´s original values -among them the inherent cruelty of life' s strengthening- wich transformed in negative values. In Beyond guilt and expiation (1966) Jean Améry, a victim of nazi´s violence, opposes to this idea of resentment as a mechanism essentially distortioning. He claims his resentment against executioners and their accomplices as an instrument of truth in view of demanding them the admission of their crime and the negation of their executioners condition. The paper´s aim is to reconstrue the conceptual plot in wich the divergence between Améry and Nietzsche is articulated, showing at the same time the different ontological commitments on moral that hold up their conceptions of resentment.