Status Anxiety (First Edition in Dust Jacket, Like New)

De Botton, Alain

ISBN 10: 0670044679 / ISBN 13: 9780670044672

Published by Pantheon Books, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Status Anxiety (First Edition in Dust Jacket, Like New)
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670044679
• ISBN 13: 9780670044672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Status AnxietyAuthor: Alain De BottonTitle: Status AnxietyPublication: Pantheon BooksEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Pantheon Books, 2004. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Seller ID: 391386Subject: Philosophy & Psychology

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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. 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.