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Craftsman
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
147 kr
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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 a living, have we lost touch with the idea of …
Den nya kapitalismens kultur
Häftad, 2007
3,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
155 kr
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Uppföljaren till klassikern "När karaktären krackelerar". Ett helt nytt sätt att se på arbete, talang och konsumtion har under det senaste decenniet slagit igenom på bred front. Det talas om flexiblitet och mobilitet, med exempel från en liten del av arbetslivet, där yrken inom högteknologi, media, …
Corrosion of Character
The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Häftad, 2000
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
207 kr
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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 …
On Suicide
Av Emile Durkheim, Richard Sennett
Häftad, 2006
155 kr
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Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate …
Craftsman
E-bok, 2009
108 kr
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Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' …
Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
Häftad, 2019
166 kr
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'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to …
Fall of Public Man
Häftad, 2017
202 kr
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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. Richard Sennett’s insights into the danger of …
Flesh and Stone
The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Häftad, 1996
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
350 kr
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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 architecture of stone and space from ancient …
Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Häftad, 2008
437 kr
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Richard Sennett is one of the world's leading sociologists, and this book, first published in 1970, was his first single-authored work. It launched his exploration of communities and how they live in cities, and outlined his view that order breeds narrow, violence-prone lives, while an 'equilibrium …
Performer
Art, Life, Politics
Inbunden, 2024
295 kr
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An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on …
Respect
The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality
Häftad, 2004
166 kr
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Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society.'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?'Respect can be attained by gaining success, by …
Fall of Public Man
Häftad, 2003
171 kr
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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 our own lives? Or has public life left no place …
Together
The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Häftad, 2013
147 kr
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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 society traditional bonds are waning, and we …
On Suicide
Av Emile Durkheim, Richard Sennett
E-bok, 2006
125 kr
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Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate …
Respect
The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality
E-bok, 2004
136 kr
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In this provocative and timely book, Richard Sennett examines the forces that erode respect in modern society. Respect can be gained by attaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. But, Sennett argues, many who are not able to achieve the demands …
Fall of Public Man
E-bok, 2003
136 kr
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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 our own lives? Or has public life left no place …
Nineteenth-Century Cities
Essays in the New Urban History
Av Stephan Thernstrom, Richard Sennett
Häftad, 1969
695 kr
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Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define what is coming to be known as the "new urban history." The cities studied range from small communities …
Culture of the New Capitalism
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
192 kr
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A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values. 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 …
Uses of Disorder
E-bok, 2012
236 kr
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The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth. Drawing …
Building and Dwelling
Inbunden, 2018
312 kr
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A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live …
Conscience of the Eye
The Design and Social Life of Cities
Häftad, 1992
300 kr
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From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem—a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.
Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Häftad, 1992
250 kr
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The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults—both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents—into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior …
Authority
Häftad, 1993
257 kr
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A master of the interplay between politics and psychology, Richard Sennett here 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 …
Hidden Injuries of Class
Av Jonathan Cobb, Richard Sennett
Häftad, 1993
300 kr
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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 …
Palais-Royal
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers—Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest—each of whom is struggling for self-definition and social recognition. Of their lives and this world Sennett has made a remarkable work …
Respect in a World of Inequality
Häftad, 2004
300 kr
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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, …
Practicing Culture
Av Craig Calhoun, Richard Sennett
Häftad, 2007
750 kr
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Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless …
Practicing Culture
Av Craig Calhoun, Richard Sennett
Inbunden, 2007
2513 kr
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Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless …
