Complaint

From Minor Moans to Principled Protests

Julian Baggini

ISBN 1846680638

ISBN 13 9781846680632

July 2010

Price £8.99

Paperback, 160 pp.

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Subjects: Big Ideas, Philosophy

Other formats available: Paperback

‘This book could change the way we live … [a] relaxed, affable, yet startlingly lucid analysis of humanity’s tendency to complain’ - The Independent

Complaint can be a powerful political tool. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King both used it to drive social change. So why do we moan about increasingly trivial things – like the weather or public transport? Do Brits complain less than Americans? Do men and women complain about different things? What is the best way to complain? From Adam and Eve to the Iraq War, Baggini analyzes precisely what we complain about, how and why. You can’t complain about that!

‘He talks great sense on the positive effects of our modern grievance culture, and has a good line in aphorisms.’
— The Times