When Bad Things Happen to Other People (Hardcover)

What is it in human nature that sometimes makes us derive pleasure from others', even friends, suffering? In this provocative and groundbreaking 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 to Schadenfreude by engaging not only philosophers like Kant and Nietzsche but a variety of thinkers and writers including Freud, Baudelaire, Dickens and even contemporary novelists like Umberto Eco and Toni Morrison.
When Bad Things Happen to Other People makes a vital contribution to not only philosophy, human behaviour and ethics, but challenges all of us to reexamine our feelings about suffering, sympathy and the ambiguity of justice.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203903552

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	2000
Authors:	John Portmann
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-92334-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-92334-4
Barcode:	9780415923347

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