Status Anxiety Paperback by Alain De Botton

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2005-05-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143016441
• Item Weight: 294.84 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.89 cm

This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: 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. Alain de Botton, bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy and The Art of Travel, asks—with lucidity and charm—where worries about our 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 learned to overcome their worries in their search for happiness.

The result is a book that isn't just highly entertaining and thought provoking, but also genuinely wise and helpful.

About the Author

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.