Status Anxiety

Name: Status Anxiety
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ISBN: 9780375725357

ISBN-10: 0375725350

ISBN-13: 9780375725357

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alain De Botton, Alain De Botton

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Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining.…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Lovelessness



Snobbery



Expectation



Meritocracy



Dependence



Philosophy



Art



Politics



Christianity



Bohemia