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When Bad Things Happen to Other People 0073402826 and other mainstays of twentieth-Although many of us deny it, it is not uncommon to feel pleasure over the suffering of others, particularly when we feel that suffering has been deserved. The German word for this concept Schadenfreude has become universal in its expression of this feeling. Drawing on the teachings of history's most prominent philosophers, John Portmann explores the concept of Schadenfreudein this rigorous, comprehensive, and absorbing study.