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Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety
Author: Alain De Botton
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. Best-selling author Alain de Botton, asks—with lucidity and charm—where our worries about status come from and what, if a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786146963
ISBN-10: 0786146966
Publication Date: 7/15/2006
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
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Fascinating. A little too close to home!
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Interesting sociological analysis about the roots and manifestations of status anxiety. Should be dry considering the subject matter but de Botton writes in a colloquial, humorous fashion. Easy to read as the work is divided up into numbered sections with their own headings.


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