When bad things happen to other people / John Portmann.
When bad things happen to other people / John Portmann.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Date
2000.
Call Numbers
N248.4/75
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Sometimes Sweet Suffering of Others -- I. When Pretty Bad Things Happen to Other People. 1. Much Ado about Nothing? 2. Explaining Schadenfreude -- II. When Really Bad Things Happen to Other People. 3. The Meaning of Suffering. 4. Wicked Feelings. 5. Celebrating Suffering. 6. Punish...
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Publisher
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2000.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Schadenfreude
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Summary
""Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies," Gore Vidal once observed. It's funny, it's terrible, and it's true. What is it in human nature that makes us derive pleasure from others' - even friends' - suffering? John Portmann explores this all-too-human foible - what the Germans call Schadenfreude - in the first book ever written a...
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When bad things happen to other people / John Portmann.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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N248.4/75
Record Identifier
74VvGZ3GbqNb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvGZ3GbqNb
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ISBN
0415923344 :
9780415923347 (alk. paper)
0415923344 (alk. paper)
9780415923354 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415923352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415923347
0415923344
9780415923354 (pbk.)
0415923352 (pbk.)
9780415923347 :
9780415923354(pbk.)
0415923352(pbk.)
DDC
248.4
MMS ID
991012477279702626
