Cruel Delight

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  • Cruel Delight Book Detail

  • Author : James A. Steintrager
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 238
  • ISBN 13 : 9780253343673
  • File Size : 68,68 MB

Cruel Delight by James A. Steintrager PDF Summary

Book Description: Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom

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