Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
Internationally heralded author, Alain De Botton, turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love.
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.
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 20.8 x 13.5 x 2.4 | 568g
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Publication City/Country: Camberwell, Vic, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: illustrations
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0241142393
ISBN13: 9780241142394
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.