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Status Anxiety

by Alain de Botton

4.0

About the book

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 explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging 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.

His richest, funniest, most heartfelt work yet, packed with erudition and brimming with an elegant originality of mind...An informative joy to read.

The Seattle Times

Categories:

Cultural Philosophy Society Personal Development Sociology History Psychology Self-help Non-fiction

Language:

English

Length:

306 pages

Author:

Alain de Botton
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