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Schadenfreude

Tiffany Watt Smith

'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' Guardian

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure

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.

Tiffany Watt Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith is research fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions and was also a 2014 BBC New Generation Thinker. Before beginning her career in theatre she worked as a theatre director for seven years including stints as Associate Director at the Arcola Theatre and International Associate Director at the Royal Court. She lives in London.

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Schadenfreude

Tiffany Watt Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith

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