Schadenfreude Why We Feel Better When Bad Things Happen to Other People

'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' Guardian A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships with others and our sense of who we are. Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.

ISBN:	9781781259108
Publisher:	Profile
Imprint:	Wellcome Collection
Published date:	05 Nov 2020
DEWEY:	152.42
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	154g
Height:	128mm
Width:	198mm
Spine width:	20mm

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