Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests

by Julian Baggini

Book Overview

'Popular philosophy of the best kind' Financial Times All major social advances started with a complaint: Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela each brought about change by protesting that the status quo was wrong and needed to be rethought. Complaint has revolutionised society - yet it is now associated primarily with trivial moans and frivolous litigation. Renowned popular philosopher Julian Baggini shows that in order to reclaim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846680573
• ISBN13: 9781846680571
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

My complaint review

I found this book both entertaining and imformative. It was interesting to me that more people complain about things over which they no (or little) control than over things which they have control. It was also interesting to find that even when people have control, they rarely exercise it. It seems we get more pleasure complaining than fixing the world.