When bad things happen to other people /

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Author / Creator:Portmann, John.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4116143
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ISBN:0415923344 (alk. paper)
0415923352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Sometimes Sweet Suffering of Others
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • I.. When Pretty Bad Things Happen to Other People
  • 1. Much Ado about Nothing?
  • 2. Explaining Schadenfreude
  • II.. When Really Bad Things Happen to Other People
  • 3. The Meaning of Suffering
  • 4. Wicked Feelings
  • 5. Celebrating Suffering
  • 6. Punishment and Its Pleasure
  • 7. Cheering with the Angels
  • 8. Outlaw Emotions
  • Conclusion: The Moral Problem of Schadenfreude
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Index