About the Book: Schadenfreude
In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert
insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson,
investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous
confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most
trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional
glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our
relationships with others and our sense of who we are.Frank, warm and
laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about
this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.
About the Author: Tiffany Watt Smith
Tiffany Watt Smith