Richard Sennett heeft onderzocht hoe individuen en groepen sociale en culturele betekenis geven aan materiële feiten – over de steden waarin ze leven en het werk dat ze verrichten. Hij richt zich op hoe mensen bekwame interpreten van hun eigen ervaring kunnen worden, ondanks de obstakels die de maatschappij hen mogelijk in de weg legt. Als sociaal analist zet Sennett de pragmatische traditie voort die door William James en John Dewey werd ingezet. Hij onderzoekt de vorming van identiteit in stedelijke omgevingen, analyseert hoe het moderne kapitalisme de levens van werknemers transformeert en bekijkt de gevolgen voor verantwoordelijkheid, samenwerking en vakmanschap.
Exploring the interplay between human experiences and architectural spaces, this book delves into the daily lives of individuals from ancient Athens to modern New York. It vividly captures the nuances of public and private interactions, sensory experiences, and cultural practices, including dining, fashion, bathing, and intimacy. Through its rich descriptions, it highlights how the environment shapes and reflects the complexities of life across different eras and locations.
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 guidance, stability, images of strength? What happens when our fear of and our need for authority come into conflict? In exploring these questions, Sennett examines traditional forms of authority (The father’s in the family, the lord’s in society) and the dominant contemporary styles of authority, and he shows how our needs for, no less than our resistance to, authority have been shaped by history and culture, as well as by psychological disposition.
How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city
Richard Sennett untersucht die Beziehung zwischen urbanem Planen und konkretem Leben und entwickelt eine überzeugende Ethik für die Stadt.
'Together' traces the evolution of cooperative rituals in medieval churches and guilds, Renaissance workshops and courts, early modern laboratories and diplomatic embassies. Today, it explains the trials and prospects of cooperation online, face-to-face ethnic conflicts, among financial workers and community organisers.
Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges into this vibrant, anxious world to recreate the experiences of Herzen and his contemporaries.
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 for individuals to participate? Tracing the changing nature of urban society from the eighteenth century to the world we now live in, and the decline of involvement in political life in recent decades, Richard Sennett discusses the causes of our social withdrawal. His landmark study of the imbalance of modern civilization provides a fascinating perspective on the relationship between public life and the cult of the individual.
"In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York City assumed their modern forms ; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford and others ; and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medellin, Colombia, to the Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, he shows how the 'closed city' - segregated, regimented, and controlled - has spread from the global North to the exploding urban agglomerations of the global South. As an alternative, he argues for the 'open city,' where citizens actively hash out their differences and planners experiment with urban forms that make it easier for residents to cope. Rich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before - Building and Dwelling draws on Sennett's deep learning and intimate engagement with city life to form a bold and original vision for the future of cities."--[Source inconnue]
The 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 words. Richard Sennett is particularly attuned to the ways in which the rituals of ordinary life are performances. The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing. This is the first in a trilogy of books on the fundamental DNA of human expression- performing, narrating, and imaging.