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.
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ISBN | 9780415923354 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Taylor & Francis |
Jahr | 20000630 |
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