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Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, b
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical
Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond o
I ”Building and Dwelling” destillerer Richard Sennet et helt livs teoretiske og praktiske erfaring med udforskningen af sammenhængen mellem et velkonstrueret bymiljø og det gode menneskeliv. Richard Sennet argumenterer for og beskriver med rig
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it demands a reimagin
In his most ambitious book to date, Richard Sennett offers an original perspective on craftsmanship and its close connections to work and ethical values Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake,
This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion against authority paradoxically establishes, showing how this paradox has been in the making since the French Re
A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. R
Sociologen Richard Sennett kortlægger de vigtigste forskelle mellem tidligere tiders industrikapitalisme og den mere globale og foranderlige form for kapitalisme, der er ved at indtage industrikapitalismens plads. Den nye kapitalismes kultur forudsætter e
A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future "Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking."--Jonathan Meades, The Guardian In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Senne
Det fleksible menneske - eller arbejdets forvandling og personlighedens nedsmeltning er den fulde titel på Richard Sennetts bog. Hvordan er det muligt at realisere langsigtede mål og værdier, når det moderne samfund og arbejdslivet er helliget det korte s
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? "Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been le
Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love-all in the ar
Selvom ordet ´håndværk´ måske leder tankerne hen på en livsform, der har været aftagende siden begyndelsen af det industrielle samfund, argumenterer Richard Sennett for, at håndværksmæssighed er et aspekt af og en tilgrundlæggende kvalitet ved alle former
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker 'All the world's a stage' declares the melancholy Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Today that's an unhappy thought. A cluster of