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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck : Why We Can't Look Away by Eric Wilson, Eric G. Wilson is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck : Why We Can't Look Away about?
Why can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? In Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the caustic, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. "To repress death is to lose the feeling of life," he writes. "A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies." His examples are legion, and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defence of what it
Who reads Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck : Why We Can't Look Away?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eric Wilson, Eric G. Wilson
- Publisher
- Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374150334
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 2.9 / 5 (224 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14