Status Anxiety (Vintage International)

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de Botton, Alain 저자(글)

Vintage Books USA · 2005년 05월 10일

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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.

작가정보

저자(글) de Botton, Alain

Alain de Botton is the author of three previous works of fiction and three of nonfiction, including The Art of Travel, The Consolations of Philosophy, and How Proust Can Change Your Life (all available in paperback from Vintage Books). He lives in London.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
  I Lovelessness 9
  II Snobbery 19
  III Expectation 31
  IV Meritocracy 65
  V Dependence 93
  I Philosophy 113
  II Art 131
  III Politics 185
  IV Christianity 225
  V Bohemia 275

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“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

“A smart and amusing inquiry. . . . Thick with social history and as funny as [it is] acute.” —The Boston Globe


“A typically de Bottonesque romp. . . . Full of great. . . literary and philosophical references.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“His insights float on a kind light irony. . . like pixilated Barthes. . . . The pleasures of his prose come from following the play of his mind, the vast erudition, the succinct paraphrases, and vivid, often lyrical physical descriptions.” —Boston Phoenix

기본정보

ISBN	9780375725357 ( 0375725350 )
발행(출시)일자	2005년 05월 10일
쪽수	320쪽
크기	132 * 203 * 18 mm / 317 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어