Status Anxiety by De Botton, Alain

Status Anxiety

Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor's Lexus had better read...
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Author: Alain De Botton
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Language: English
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Status Anxiety by De Botton, Alain

Status Anxiety

$62.18

Status Anxiety

$62.18
Author: Alain De Botton
Format: CD
Language: English
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 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. "Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first--the story of our quest for sexual love--is well known and well charted...The second--the story of our quest for love from the world--is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first." This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that is rarely mentioned: an anxiety about what others think of us, about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. Bestselling author Alain de Botton asks--with lucidity and charm--where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to surmount them. With the help of philosophers, artists, and writers, he examines the origins of status anxiety before revealing ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness. We learn about sandal-less philosophers and topless bohemians, about the benefits of putting skulls on our sideboards, and about looking at ancient ruins. The result is a book that is not only highly entertaining and thought-provoking but genuinely wise and helpful, too.

Author: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 06/15/2006
Binding Type: CD
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 6.14h x 7.36w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780786172887

About the Author
De Botton, Alain: -

Alain de Botton is the author of numerous nonfiction books, including The Consolations of Philosophy and Status Anxiety. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in Washington, DC, and London, where he is an associate research fellow of the philosophy program of the University of London, School of Advanced Study.

Vance, Simon: -

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.



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