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Status anxiety / Alain de Botton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Botton, Alain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social status.
- Social status--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- With characteristic originality, lucidity, and lan, de Botton addresses the anxieties that seem inextricably embedded in our pursuit of success and status, and explores what, if anything, we can do about them.
- Contents:
- Causes: Lovelessness
- Expectation
- Meritocracy
- Snobbery
- Dependence
- Solutions: Philosophy
- Art
- Politics
- Religion
- Bohemia.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0375420835
- OCLC:
- 53007046
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