When Bad Things Happen to Other People
- Authors
- Portmann, John
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Tags
- philosophy , psychology , nonfiction , social sciences , history
- ISBN
- 9780415923354
- Date
- 1999-11-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.25 MB
- Lang
- en
How can we derive pleasure from others' suffering? Portmann explores Schadenfreude, drawing on writers and thinkers such as Kant, Freud and Toni Morrison and challenging us to re-examine feelings about suffering, sympathy and justice.