The Schadenfreude Institute in Great Britain has made is core mission  the systematic study and exploration of schadenfreude and related subject domains – like hubris and so on.

The reader may also find some zeitgeist (once that zeitgeist gets in it can be very difficult to get rid of it).

A brief history of Schadenfreude in Great Britain

Although the concept of schadenfreude seems to have been recognised in Great Britain by the early 19th Century (e.g. in the works of Jane Austen) , it proved necessary to import a word for this phenomenon from the German language. Other significant German imports around that period included the royal family, the Christmas tree and the Prince Albert.

There is some evidence that it was recognised even earlier:

“He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it.”

Ecclesiastes 10:8

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