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Schadenfreude
Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people
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Schadenfreude
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure
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'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' - Guardian
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 along 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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_Titled_ Schadenfreude, Tiffany Watt Smith's book offers a humorous and enlightening exploration of one of the most commonly felt yet often guilt-inducing emotions. It is praised for its wit and candour, regarded as both entertaining and insightful.
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ISBN: 9781781259108
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 May 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wellcome Collection
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 152g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of The Book of Human Emotions. Her TED talk 'The History of Human Emotions' has been viewed by more than 4 million people. She regularly appears as an expert contributor on BBC radio and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Scientist and BBC Magazine among others. She is Reader in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London, where she is also Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2018 she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research.
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