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Classic Essays on the Culture of CitiesISBN 013135194X (0-13-135194-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 0393046788 (0-393-04678-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Craftsmanby Richard SennettISBN 0300119097 (0-300-11909-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Culture of New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 0300119925 (0-300-11992-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of the New Capitalism'Book summary: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 old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls “the specter of uselessness haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an “iron cage. Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of “reform.[via]More editions of The Culture of New Capitalism:
The Fall of the Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0141007575 (0-14-100757-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilizationby Richard SennettISBN 0141007591 (0-14-100759-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Frog Who Dared to Croakby Richard SennettISBN 0374158843 (0-374-15884-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frog Who Dared to Croak'Book summary:Sociologist Sennett (The Fall of Public Man, Authority) ventures, uncertainly, into fiction--with a book that purports to be the collected personal papers of a Hungarian intellectual named Tibor Grau (seemingly based, at least in part, on Georg Lukacs). These papers detail, mostly through indirection, Grau's constantly uneasy but always surviving position vis à vis state power: to Grau, ""a face without a mask gets frostbitten from the cold""; after all, as the homosexual son of a prominent Jewish banker of Budapest, he has become accustomed to degrees of masquerade. And the book's most effective section presents Grau as a functionary in Bela Kun's short-lived Hungarian Soviet of 1919: he doctors a poem (rendering it ridiculous) to fit propaganda purposes; he watches the same basic revisionism allow a murder to be pinned unjustly on a friend; he wholeheartedly attempts to alter fairy tales. (The title's thematic allusion: a frog who is himself cannot help but croak.) Does Tibor eventually ""croak,"" then--by speaking out as a free and a different man? Well, yes and no--which is presumably Sennett's modulated point. Yet the book's intellectual texture and pattern is a hindrance here: the effect is consciously self-contained and patchy--with more emphasis on carpentered paradigms than On the painful inconsistency of a full, individual life. (Tibor's sexuality, for instance, is all but totally tangential.) Thoughtful intentions, then--and socio-historical interest--but very limited appeal as fiction. [via]
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Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban Historyby Stephan Thernstrom, Richard SennettISBN 0300094655 (0-300-09465-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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- Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History: ISBN 0300011512 (0-300-01151-2)
Softcover, Yale University Press - Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History: ISBN 0300011504 (0-300-01150-4)
Hardcover, Yale University Press - Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History: ISBN 0300094655 (0-300-09465-5)
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On Suicideby Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley, Robin Buss, Richard SennettISBN 0140449671 (0-14-044967-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups that had high incidences of suicide, he discovered that abnormally high or low levels of social integration increase the likelihood of suicide. More than a century after its initial publication, Durkheim?s groundbreaking work continues to fascinate and challenge those seeking to understand one of the least understandable of human acts.More editions of On Suicide:
The Performerby Richard SennettISBN 0300116330 (0-300-11633-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Respect in a World of Inequalityby Richard SennettISBN 0393051269 (0-393-05126-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Respect in a World of Inequality'Book summary:The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.
In Respect in a World of Inequality, distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett explores the need for respectand the consequences of disrespectin a highly competitive and interdependent society.
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. [via]
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Respect : The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequalityby Richard SennettISBN 0141007567 (0-14-100756-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Respect : The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality'Book summary: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 developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. But, Sennett argues, many who are not able to achieve the demands of today's meritocracy lose the esteem that should be given to them. From his childhood in a poor Chicago housing project to the contrasting methods of care practised by a nun and a social worker, from the harmonious interaction of musicians to the welfare system, Sennett explores the ways in which mutual respect can forge bonds across the divide of inequality. "One of the boldest social thinkers of his generation...[Sennett] has a genius for revealing the roots of our discontents". (Boyd Tonkin, "Independent"). "Dazzling ...an elegant mix of interview, anecdote and wide research". (Jenny Turner, "Guardian"). "This is the voice of a prophet". (Scott McLemee, "Washington Post"). "Wise and humane...Sennett has set his sights on that most daring of missions: to make the world a better place". (Alain de Botton, "Daily Telegraph"). "Wholly engrossing...[Sennett] explores ways of preserving an equality of respect". (Alan Ryan, "New York Review of Books"). Richard Sennett's previous works include "The Fall of Public Man", "The Corrosion of Character", "Respect", "Flesh and Stone" and "The Craftsman". He taught for many years at the New York Institute of the Humanities and is now a Professor at the London School of Economics. [via]
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Thomas Struth : Strangers and Friendsby Richard SennettISBN 0262193574 (0-262-19357-4)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realmby Richard SennettISBN 0262691736 (0-262-69173-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Lifeby Richard SennettISBN 0140216723 (0-14-021672-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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