Tag: German

Sehnsucht is a yearning so singular that nothing else seems to matter, even to the point of self-destruction

Emotions are subjective, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all self-centered. Human beings are social by nature. Because of that, we experience vicarious emotions, feelings about other people’s feelings. Mudita, for example, is… more emotion Fremdscham

We all know the feeling of wintercearig, the slow, dreary emotion that comes with the dark and cold of the literal and figurative wintertimes of our lives. In Germany, however, people experience a… more emotion Frühjahrsmüdigkeit

Schadenfreude takes delight in the misery of others not because of a simple sadism, but because people feel despair when people with power can inflict cruelty without fear of consequences.

This week’s episode of the podcast of This Human Business considers the alternative forms of time that elude the unrelenting mechanistic progress of Chronos, the lord of clocks. We’re used to hearing time… more emotion Torschlusspanik