A review by _bookmoth
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

4.0

Don’t have high expectations of Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety, it is not a self-help book, it doesn’t deliver extraordinary new insights and it doesn’t leave you with a satisfied answer to the question how to deal with the everyday anxiety of our status in society. However, walking on well-trodden paths, Status Anxiety offers a brief summary of what we actually already know and puts it into order and perspective. It is a humble attempt to place a footnote on contemporary success, how we are deceived by our own society. Where Alain de Botton could have focused more is the role of advertisements in modern society and the need of anxiety in society to keep consumer’s buying their fears away.

[review continued on my blog: http://gladeofblades.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/493/]