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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 thi...
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life-how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace ol...
Simmel's Mask of Rationality Getting Beyond the Mask of Rationality: Notions of the Public for Arendt and Habermas Putting Aside the Mask of Rationality: Performativity in the Public Realm
IntroductionRigidity and StrangenessFlexibility and IndifferenceConclusions: The Fate of the Urban VirtuesReferences
Richard Sennett ofrece una renovada interpretacion a la planta ortogonal -damero- de las ciudades norteamericanas, traduciendo a la dimension espacial las propuestas de Max Weber
ForewordIntroduction3Pt. 1The Enchantment of AppearancesCh. IFashion and the West: The Aristocratic Moment18Ch. IIA Century of Fashion55Ch. IIIOpen Fashion88Pt. 2Consummate FashionCh. IVThe Seduction of Things134Ch. VAdvertising on the Offensive156Ch. VICulture, Media Style174Ch. VIIMeaning Carries On203Ch. VIIIThe Progressive Shifting of the Socia...
In Authority, Sennett analyzes the nature, the role, and the faces of authority – authority in personal life, in the public realm, authority as an idea. Why have we become so afraid of authority? What real needs for authority do we have – for guidance, stability, images of strength? What happens when our fear of and our need for authority come into...
“Public” life once meant that vital part one’s life outside the circle of family and close friends. Connecting with strangers in an emotionally satisfying way and yet remaining aloof from them was seen as the means by which the human animal was transformed into the social – the civilized – being. And the fullest flowering of that public life was re...
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define t...
Traducción de: Narcissism and Modern Culture
Traducción de: Authority
Traducción de: Flesh and Stone. The Body and the City in Western Civilization Historia del espacio urbano en el mundo occidental trazada a través de la experiencia coproral de sus habitantes, en un recorrido que atraviesa desde la antigua Atenas hasta la Nueva York de fines del siglo XX.
Traducción de: The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Traducción de: Respect in a World of Inequality Planteamiento de la relación que existe entre las categorías de respeto, desigualdad social y responsabilidad social. El autor se considera como actor de este fenómeno social, al compartir sus experiencias vividas en Cabrini Green, Chicago. Sus conclusiones consisten en que es imposible lograr el resp...
Traducción de: The uses of disorder : personal identity and city life
Reimpresión en 1981 en Nueva York por Vintage Books Incluye índice
Sobre la base de reconstrucciones culturalmente históricas, Richard Sennett describe en "El Artesano" una idea alternativa a la flexibilidad del nuevo capitalismo, que había sido a criticada en sus escritos anteriores. Aquí se analiza los criterios y condiciones del trabajo adecuado basado en el modelo del trabajo manual, aunque su comprensión del...
