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。
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.
有句话是叫“物质精神,两手抓,两手都要硬”,很喜欢这位矮小睿智的家乡人,我们渴求温饱,安全,尊重,爱与自我实现,从物质到精神,一直是外界在支撑着我们这一颗颗脆弱的心,否则,我们便如那无柱可攀的缭藤,坠入泥土,很快腐烂生臭。我如果爱你,那么也许是因为你给我提...
评分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,对于我而言颇...
评分 评分焦虑的起因: 解决办法: 1.渴求身份 1.哲学 2.势利倾向 2.艺术 3.过度期望 3.政治 4.精英崇拜 4.基督教 5.制约因素 5.波希...
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
评分博闻强识;multi perspectives
评分it's a follow-up reading after The Power of Alignment, with the objective of write up an essay on consensus of identities and the alignment of power -- an analogy of ccp's recent fractional struggle for survival
评分真能超然世俗者,能有几人?
评分One of my favourite authors of leisure readings.
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