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Status anxiety / Alain de Botton.

By: Material type: TextTextCopyright date: London : Penguin 2004Description: 314 p. : ill., ports. 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141014869
  • 9780141014869
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Partial contents:
Causes: Lovelessness -- Snobbery -- Expectation -- Meritocacy -- Dependence -- Solutions: Philosophy -- Art -- Politics -- Christianity -- Bohemia
Summary: For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes.
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General General ATU Wellpark Road General Shelves 155.92 DEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J144228

Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004.

Includes index.

Causes: Lovelessness -- Snobbery -- Expectation -- Meritocacy -- Dependence -- Solutions: Philosophy -- Art -- Politics -- Christianity -- Bohemia

For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes.

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