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A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
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, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In his 1972 classic, The Hidden Injuries of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a man he called Enrico, a hardworking janitor whose life was structured by a union pay schedule and given meaning by his sacrifices for the future. In this new book-a #1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the contemporary scene characterized by Enrico's son, Rico, whose life is more materially successful, yet whose work lacks long-term commitments or loyalties. Distinguished by Sennett's "combination of broad historical and literary learning and a reporter's willingness to walk into a store or factory [and] strike up a conversation" (New York Times Book Review), this book "challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism . . . is merely a fresh form of oppression" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Praise for The Corrosion of Character: "A benchmark for our time."—Daniel Bell "[A]n incredibly insightful book."—William Julius Wilson "[A] remarkable synthesis of acute empirical observation and serious moral reflection."—Richard Rorty "[Sennett] offers abundant fresh insights . . . illuminated by his concern with people's struggle to give meaning to their lives."—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal
Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.
Sennett contends that cooperation is a craft, and the foundations for skillful cooperation lie in learning to listen well and discuss rather than debate. In Together he explores how people can cooperate online, on street corners, in schools, at work, and in local politics. He traces the evolution of cooperative rituals from medieval times to today, and in situations as diverse as slave communities, socialist groups in Paris, and workers on Wall Street. Divided into three parts, the book addresses the nature of cooperation, why it has become weak, and how it could be strengthened. The author warns that we must learn the craft of cooperation if we are to make our complex society prosper, yet he reassures us that we can do this, for the capacity for cooperation is embedded in human nature.
In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society gives a special premium.
The authors conclude that in the games of hierarchical respect, no class can emerge the victor; and that true egalitarianism can be achieved only by rediscovering diverse concepts of human dignity. Examining personal feelings in terms of a totality of human relations, and looking beyond the struggle for economic survival, The Hidden Injuries of Class takes an important step forward in the sociological critique of everyday life.
Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?
Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate.
Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.
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 reimagination of the city and how class, city life and identity combine. Too often, this leads to divisions, such as the middle class flight to the suburbs, leaving the inner cities in desperate straits. In response, Sennett offers an alternative image of a "dense, disorderly, overwhelming cities" that allow for change and the development of community. Fifty years later this book is as essential as it was when it first came out, and remains an inspiration to architects, planners and urban thinkers everywhere.
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.
As various forms of social welfare were dismantled though the last decade of the twentieth century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was best served by a focus on potential, not need.
Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibility across the gulf of inequality. In the uncertain world of "flexible" social relationships, all are troubled by issues of respect: whether it is an employee stuck with insensitive management, a social worker trying to aid a resentful client, or a virtuoso artist and an accompanist aiming for a perfect duet.
Opening with a memoir of growing up in Chicago's infamous Cabrini Green housing project, Richard Sennett looks at three factors that undermine mutual respect: unequal ability, adult dependency, and degrading forms of compassion. In contrast to current welfare "reforms," Sennett proposes a welfare system based on respect for those in need. He explores how self-worth can be nurtured in an unequal society (for example, through dedication to craft); how self-esteem must be balanced with feeling for others; and how mutual respect can forge bonds across the divide of inequality.
Where erasing inequality was once the goal of social radicals, Sennett seeks a more humane meritocracy: a society that, while accepting inequalities of talent, seeks to nurture the best in all its members and to connect them strongly to one another.
Richard Sennett, Bâtir et habiter. Pour une éthique de la ville
De l'antique cité d'Athènes aux villes ultramodernes du XXIe siècle, comme New York et Shanghai, la réflexion passionnante de Richard Sennett porte sur la relation entre la forme construite, la ville, telle qu'elle est conçue par les urbanistes, et la manière dont nous l'habitons. Partant du constat que la configuration de l'espace urbain peut enrichir ou aussi bien contrarier la vie quotidienne de ses habitants, ce livre répond à une urgence propre à la politique des villes aujourd'hui : Comment conjoindre la forme et le fond ? Comment être heureux en ville ? Quelles sont les dispositions particulières qui nous permettent, en dépit de nos préjugés, de nos habitudes, de vivre avec les autres ? Mobilisant tous les savoirs urbanisme, littérature, sociologie, philosophie, Richard Sennett montre que la clé réside dans l'élaboration d'une éthique de la ville. Et cette éthique, selon lui, tient en un mot : l'ouverture ; l'ouverture d'esprit des individus et l'ouverture de la forme bâtie qui favorise la sociabilité. « L'urbain compétent » est alors celui qui est capable de sortir de son isolement, d'aller à la rencontre de l'autre, et de jeter un regard toujours renouvelé sur le monde qui l'entoure. Richard Sennett est professeur à la London School of Economics. Ses essais, primés à de nombreuses reprises, l'ont imposé en Europe comme l'une des figures les plus originales de la critique sociale aujourd'hui. Bâtir et habiter est le dernier volet d'une trilogie parue chez Albin Michel, après Ce que sait la main (2010) et Ensemble (2014).
Richard Sennett es un autor de gran prestigio entre los lectores interesados en temas sociológicos. Así, La corrosión del carácter estudia las consecuencias antropológicas de la nueva organización del trabajo en el capitalismo de las últimas décadas del siglo XIX, El respeto es una reflexión sociológica sobre las instituciones de asistencia social, El artesano aborda el valor formativo y moral del trabajo personal y Juntos trata de la participación y la colaboración social. Este volumen, breve pero interesantísimo, incluye dos textos: El gueto judío de Venecia, nueva versión de un capítulo de su importante Carne y piedra, obra de 1994 en la que el autor daba muestra de la amplitud de sus conocimientos y de la sutileza de su análisis sociológico, y El extranjero, una versión ampliada y revisada de un ensayo anterior sobre el exilio. En ambos casos, el objeto de reflexión es la condición de extranjero, de extraño, de diferente, y de la manera en que esa condición es concebida por los nativos y vivida por el extranjero, lo cual depende del contexto histórico y social. El estudio del gueto de Venecia a comienzos del siglo XVI muestra el lugar que en esa sociedad ocupaban y el trato de que eran objeto no sólo los extranjeros, sino determinados sectores sociales estigmatizados, como las prostitutas, pero especialmente los judíos. Y, a propósito de éstos, el texto analiza las consecuencias de la segregación como rechazo y a la vez estímulo para la toma de conciencia colectiva de pertenencia a una comunidad cultural. El segundo ensayo se ocupa de las tribulaciones del intelectual ruso Aleksandr Herzen, emigrado de su país en 1924, en su ruta por distintos países de Europa, y de sus dificultades para encontrar una identidad nacional. Aquí es interesante la referencia de Sennett al nuevo concepto de nación en la Europa de mediados del siglo XIX y el cambio en la naturaleza política de la idea de nación, que aludía de manera primordial a la ciudadanía, por una naturaleza de tipo antropológico, que alude más a la fusión del individuo con el conjunto de creencias, tradiciones y hábitos lingüísticos y culturales de un pueblo.
Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively “ordered” community freezes adults—both the fierce young idealists and their security-oriented parents—into rigid attitudes that originate in adolescence and stifle further personal growth. He explains how the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle cases that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. He demonstrates that most city planning has been conducted with the same rigidity, and shows, in specific and human terms, why that approach has not solved and cannot solve our cities problems.
The Uses of Disorder is not only a critique of the ways in which the affluent city has failed as a place where the individual—even the affluent individual—can grow. It is also an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming. The author proposes and projects in concrete terms (including a new use of the police) a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, diversity, and creative disorder to bring into being adults who can openly respond to and dealt with the challenges of life.
Thus, Richard Sennett, more aware of the nature of human nature than most Utopians of the past, sees progress in the creation of new urban relationships that will protect, not stability, but diversity and change. Out of his books, with its free and imaginative insights grounded in a strong sense of present-day realities, emerges the vision of a fully affluent and libertarian society—an arena that will welcome a rich variety of individuals, and accept the conflict that stem from such variety as not merely inevitable but life-giving.
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