Schadenfreude
eBook - ePub

Schadenfreude

Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Schadenfreude

Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

About this book

'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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Tiffany Watt Smith
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Prologue A Community of the Failed
  9. 1: Accidents
  10. 2: Glory
  11. 3: Justice
  12. 4: The Smug
  13. 5: Love
  14. 6: Envy
  15. 7: Mutiny
  16. 8: Power
  17. Afterword Schadenfreude: The Rules of Engagement
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Referenced works
  20. An Index of Schadenfreude: A select catalogue of its variations, causes and consequences