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Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He sho ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
55.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 ...Show more
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focu ...Show more
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
2.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Castle Lectures Series in Ethics, Politics & Economics
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 ...Show more
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Jonathan Richard; Cobb Sennett
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city. In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover ...Show more
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett; Jonathan Cobb
43.90 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 struggle for ...Show more
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett
55.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker 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. ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures And Politics Of Co-Operation by Richard Sennett
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 mu ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation by Richard Sennett
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most difficult challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and simi ...Show more
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