Status Anxiety (Vintage International)

Status Anxiety (Vintage International)

Anyone whoâ€™s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighborâ€™s Lexus had better read Alain de Bottonâ€™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 itâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2008-12-10
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780307491336

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