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When Bad Things Happen to Other People (Paperback)
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When Bad Things Happen to Other People (Paperback)
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How can we derive pleasure from others' suffering? In this original and provocative book, John Portmann explores this all-too-human foible - what Germans call Schadenfreude.
Disagreement about suffering - what it is, who deserves it, and how much - has compelled philosophers for centuries. Portmann examines the complexity inherent in Schadenfreude, engaging philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche, thinkers and writers including Freud, Baudelaire, Dickens, and even contemporary novelists Umberto Eco and Toni Morrison.
When Bad Things Happen to Other People makes a vital contribution to philosophy, human behaviour and ethics, and challenges us to re-examine our feelings about suffering, sympathy and the ambiguity of justice.
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