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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  However, if you're going to read it, be ready to analyze your life, question your ambition and search for ways in which you can better treat your fellow humans.<br/><br/>I love comparitive philosophy.  I especially love it when it's well-researched and well-written.  Alain's st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2601275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining, but not his best: I'm usually quite a fan of Alain de Botton's writing but I found this book a little disappointing. De Botton has a consistent style and approach: a light-touched, urbane tour of the great minds, usually in search of resolutions to widespread issues or questions, in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18399897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book claims to be absent any original ideas. It cites long (and I mean long) standing philosophical precepts, draws on well worn wisdom and largely repeats what has already been said.<br/><br/>what's remarkable then is that it does so in such a clear and erudite manner that nearly every part ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16552644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites of the de Botton books. Definitely the thing to read for any sort of life transition! The book is broken into both &quot;Causes&quot; (work, friendships, politics,) and &quot;Solutions&quot; (art, religion, etc.)<br/><br/>In the classic de Botton format, philosophy is woven wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47346675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>We care about our status for a simple reason: becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46732159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find this work to be appropriate to my own everyday struggle in trying to determine how we ought to judge status.  The simple conclusion of the book (that we can relieve our status anxiety by focusing on a community that holds the same values as we do) is far less interesting than the exploration ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77518208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[finished the book and then watched the PBS show the author did - it was that good. really delved into how we view status. to me, it was less about personal anxiety over status (although the book did cover the forms of modern status anxiety) but more about the social views of implied and subversive '...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45630882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I love about de Botton is his ability to draw upon art, economics, politics, and philosophy to make his point.  This book will not offer you a solution to status anxiety, but it will offer you perspective.  You'll want to read it more than once.  <br/><br/>Here's a quote from p.9...  &quot;Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38450910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book could be called high brow-self help in the sense that de Botton examines the nature of status anxiety...for instance how proximity to others and social context determine it's severity.   <br/>De Botton doesn't claim that status anxiety is a new phenomenon, but explores the modern manifesta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74002060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>From the creator of the &quot;literary self-help&quot; genre comes a new volume of social criticism and lively anecdotes for <em>The New Yorker</em> set. De Botton's trademark erudition is the foundation for his road map, and he spares no literary reference towards the goal of enlightening his audience. Like...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting.  I don't tend to read this kind of thing, but I saw his TED talk about status, and despite status being something I don't think about a lot, his delivery was interesting and he had some solid ideas.  <br/><br/>The book's a short philosophical exercise that goes through causes, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71589525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Status Anxiety offers a generalized history of Western conceptions of status and the ways that art, philosophy and religion have mediated, supported and challenged these definitions.  After several examples chosen from the broadest of time frames, de Botton only briefly mentions how this history can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52663746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a really great review for this book and then my computer crashed...apologies since this version won't be as good or comprehensive.  Overall I'd say that the book was more didactic than I was expecting, but that won't stop me from reading more of his works.<br/><br/>Maybe it's schadenfreude, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66498662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second of two books by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Alain de Botton" title="Alain de Botton">Alain de Botton</a> that I've read this month. The first one was about the ability of philosophy to console us during life's trials. This book is an examination of the causes and potential cures for social anxiety, which he defines as &quot;a worry ... that we are in d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33608813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[De Botton is a skilled writer. This skill makes all his books very readable. He is also a skilled philosopher, employing philosophy as practical intelligence and spiritual exercise. The text in question is (another) example of what happens when the resources of the philosophic world are used to prov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29700099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed &quot;Status Anxiety&quot;. I liked his &quot;The Art of Travel&quot; too, but this is a different kind of book. &quot;The Art of Travel&quot; was looser and more haphazard. In &quot;Status Anxiety&quot;, Alain de Botton is more thorough and systematic, thought he remains casual and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10527890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is tempting. At first it may sound like a self-help or motivational book, but it was displayed in the philosophy corner in Norli Bokhandelen, my favorite bookstore in Oslo. This made me expect a little more. I wanted to understand why are we anxious about our status - our position in socie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5008268">more...</a>]]></body>
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