Bibliograph

Status anxiety, Alain de Botton

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Status anxiety, Alain de Botton

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Status anxiety

Oclc number

60342480

Responsibility statement

Alain de Botton

Summary

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. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful. -- Cover

Table Of Contents

Causes: Lovelessness -- Expectation -- Meritocracy -- Snobbery -- Dependence -- Solutions: Philosophy -- Art -- Politics -- Religion -- Bohemia

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator