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Lädt ... Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune (2018. Auflage)von Tiffany Watt Smith (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Since the term Schadenfreude (literally joy-damage) has had quite a lot of pub lately (Smith notes from her research that this has been called the Age of), this book is a completely engaging and accessible look at the way we (guiltily) take pleasure at others’ misfortune. Though she doesn’t belabor a direct correlation, the prevalence of social media and constant news has contributed significantly. When everything looks rosy in someone’s online life, a comeuppance is sometimes welcome. Special targets are celebrities, bosses, braggarts, and those in positions of power. Smith looks at historical development, psychological roots and social implications all interspersed with short, funny real-world examples of that little tinge of happiness when things go awry for others. Maybe a good New Year’s resolution to rise above? But so hard to keep when the next epic fail goes viral. ( )
Whether the writer’s vulgarity is a pose adopted to establish her democratic credentials, or whether it is a true reflection of her mind, I cannot say—nor, indeed, which is the worse. It certainly does not conduce to great precision: "On the train home, you’ll start enumerating the reasons why their life is actually a bit crap." [...] Without intending to, [the book] displays in concentrated form the prevailing characteristic of modern British culture, namely a vulgarity in conception, thought, feeling, and expression which has been raised almost to the level of an ideology. It is filled not just with gags and shaming confessions, but chastening thoughts – nowhere more so than when she challenges the orthodoxy that schadenfreude has its limits. “Flirting with the morally questionable, testing the limits of where we ‘ought’ to stop, is an exciting game,” she argues. [...] But my pleasure curdled when I saw the author photo and blurb. Look at her with her smug scarf, clever hair and face, not to mention a Twitter handle referencing her doctorate. How I hope I’ll be stumbling into discounted piles of her book come January. But it is so delightful that probably won’t happen.
We all know the pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. The Germans named this furtive delight in another's failure schadenfreude (from schaden damage, and freude, joy), and it has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries. Why can it be so satisfying to witness another's distress? And what, if anything, should we do about it? Schadenfreude illuminates this hidden emotion, inviting readers to reflect on its pleasures, and how we use other people's miseries to feel better about ourselves. Written in an exploratory, evocative form, it weaves examples from literature, philosophy, film, and music together with personal observation and historical and cultural analysis. And in today's world of polarized politics, twitter trolls and "sidebars of shame," it couldn't be timelier. Engaging, insightful, and entertaining, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about the role this much-maligned emotion plays in our lives -- perhaps even embracing it. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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