Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins.
Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.
阿兰·德波顿(Alain de Botton),英伦才子型作家,生于1969年,毕业于剑桥大学,现住伦敦。著有小说《爱情笔记》(1993)、《爱上浪漫》(1994)、《亲吻与诉说》(1995)及散文作品《拥抱逝水年华》(1997)、《哲学的慰藉》(2000)、《旅行的艺术》(2002)。他的作品已被译成二十几种文字。
这篇不是书评,是翻出来的旧作,将就贴这里了。反正前面有很多书评了,也不在意谁看。当然,贴出来是给某些想看的人看的。:) ------------------------------------------------ 我在寻找《旅行的艺术》的时候,朋友推荐的是他的《身份的焦虑》。当我拿到两本书的时候,我...
评分 评分人本质上是空虚的,没有外界的激励人便会失去其灵魂的重量,外在表现为对身份的焦虑,产生强烈的不确定感以及欲壑难平的煎熬等等。人相当于一个容器,自古以来人就深知这一点,因而开始对这个世界加以改造,以满足自身的需要。对身份的渴慕,对权力的崇拜,对知识(不是智慧)...
评分 评分地位的焦虑 译文的德波顿系列一直打的是才子牌。拿之于普鲁斯特、蒙田、王尔德相比,广告词更不忘捎带上张爱玲的佳句。我也一直深信不疑,沉浸在第一次他拿概率来解释与前女友相遇之不易所带来的shake里,直到最近入手的两本新作《身份的焦虑》和《幸福的建筑》。 身份一词,对...
There is more than one way —and more than just the judge’s and the pharmacist’s way —of succeeding at life
评分There is more than one way —and more than just the judge’s and the pharmacist’s way —of succeeding at life
评分可以,也應該一讀再讀的一部作品!
评分很棒٩( 'ω' )و 没啥具体的做法但是减少snobbery负面影响不错
评分When I could live in a bucket and still be able to tell those prententious and judgemental high achievers to fuck off, I would reconcile with myself, but until then......
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