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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. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. 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 hea

Who reads Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck : Why We Can't Look Away?

Author

Eric Wilson, Eric G. Wilson

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Farraw, Strous and Giroux

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374533700

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Science

Rating

2.9 / 5 (224 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14