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In this highly-readable volume, Portmann traces changing conceptions of sin though history and analyzes the role that sin, and our understanding of it, plays in today's society.
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This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned over recent decades, the once frivolous entertainment fringe has become the moral center.
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This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned over recent decades, the once frivolous entertainment fringe has become the moral center.
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How can we derive pleasure from others' suffering? Portmann explores Schadenfreude, drawing on writers and thinkers such as Kant, Freud and Toni Morrison and challenging us to re-examine feelings about suffering, sympathy and justice.
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Drawing on the teachings of history's most prominent philosophers the author explores the concept of Schadenfreude in this rigorous, comprehensive and absorbing study.