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Carne y piedra es una historia de la ciudad en la civilización occidental contada a través de la experiencia corporal de las personas. Apoyándose en un enfoque multidisciplinar y en su vasta erudición, Richard Sennet describe aspectos íntimos de la vida -cómo se movían hombres y mujeres, qué veían y oían, dónde comían, cuándo se bañaban, cómo hacían el amor...- en el espacio urbano de ciudades emblemáticas a lo largo de la historia. De la desnudez en la antigua Atenas a la falta de contacto con los otros en la Nueva York contemporánea; de la estricta geometría romana a la creación de lugares para la caridad en el París medieval; de las reuniones de los primeros cristianos a las fiestas revolucionarias francesas; del destino de los judíos en el gueto de Venecia durante el Renacimiento al del ciudadano francés en el París del siglo xix, el autor explora un tema vasto y elusivo: la cambiante relación del cuerpo humano con su entorno construido.
MellerHelen. Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner. (Geography, Environment and Planning Series.) New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall. 1990. Pp. xvi, 359. $85.00. - Volume 23 Issue 4 - Richard A. Soloway
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.