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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aBJ1409$b.P67 2000
082 00 $a248.4$221
100 1 $aPortmann, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99024061
245 10 $aWhen bad things happen to other people /$cJohn Portmann.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2000.
300 $axxi, 242 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Sometimes Sweet Suffering of Others --$gI.$tWhen Pretty Bad Things Happen to Other People.$g1.$tMuch Ado about Nothing?$g2.$tExplaining Schadenfreude --$gII.$tWhen Really Bad Things Happen to Other People.$g3.$tThe Meaning of Suffering.$g4.$tWicked Feelings.$g5.$tCelebrating Suffering.$g6.$tPunishment and Its Pleasure.$g7.$tCheering with the Angels.$g8.$tOutlaw Emotions.$tConclusion: The Moral Problem of Schadenfreude.
520 1 $a""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 about this universal emotion."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Disagreement about suffering - what it is, who deserves it, and how much - has compelled philosophers for centuries. Portmann humanizes Schadenfreude by investigating what diverse thinkers like Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Freud, or Toni Morrison said about it. But Portmann does even more. Using Schadenfreude as a springboard, he explores pressing issues in contemporary society. For instance, what does our insatiable appetite for media images depicting power, scandal, and betrayal tell us about our culture?
520 8 $aAnd, is capital punishment a modern-day euphemism for revenge?"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSuffering$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aPleasure$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aSympathy$xMoral and ethical aspects.
653 $aSchadenfreude
852 00 $bglx$hBJ1409$i.P67 2000
852 00 $bbar$hBJ1409$i.P67 2000