Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

ISBN-13: 9781781259108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

Tiffany Watt Smith

Opis

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.

Recenzje

[This] treatise on one of the most shame-inducing but widespread of all emotions is funny and insightful Sunday Times

O autorze

Watt Smith, TiffanyTiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of two books about the history of feeling On Flinching and The Book of Human Emotions. In 2014, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker. She is currently a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, and a lecturer in the School of English and Drama. In her previous career, she was a theatre director.