Schadenfreude
Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people
(Sprache: Englisch)
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package
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A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package
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'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' Guardian
Schadenfreude - enjoying the pain and failures of others - is an all-too-familiar feeling. It has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries but, in a time of polarised politics, twitter trolls and 'sidebars of shame', has never been more relevant. Recent studies have shown that we smile more at a rival's loss than at our own success. But why can it be so much fun to witness another's distress? And what, if anything, should we do about it?
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 relationshipswith 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Tiffany Watt Smith
Watt Smith, TiffanyTiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of two books about the history of feeling On Flinching and The Book of Human Emotions. In 2014, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker. She is currently a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, and a lecturer in the School of English and Drama. In her previous career, she was a theatre director.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tiffany Watt Smith
- Main, 160 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 20,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1781259089
- ISBN-13: 9781781259085
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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