Richard Sennett: 20 books

Book cover of The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting...
Book cover of Respect in a World of Inequality
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

The powerful case for a society of mutual respect. 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...
Book cover of The Culture of the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

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...
Book cover of La corrosión del carácter
by Richard Sennett
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2018

En el «nuevo capitalismo», la concepción del trabajo ha cambiado radicalmente. En lugar de una rutina estable, de una carrera predecible, de la adhesión a una empresa a la que se era leal y que a cambio ofrecía un puesto de trabajo estable, los trabajadores se enfrentan ahora a un mercado laboral...
Book cover of The Craftsman
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, says the...
Book cover of Authority
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1993

This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion against authority paradoxically establishes, showing how this paradox has been in the making since the French Revolution and how today it expresses itself...
Book cover of La cultura del nuevo capitalismo
by Richard Sennett
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2018

En este nuevo ensayo, Richard Sennett estudia la evolución de las instituciones, las competencias del individuo y las formas de consumo en relación con las aspiraciones libertarias de los años sesenta. Tras el estallido de las burocracias y de las constricciones, aflora ahora la fragmentación...
Book cover of Building and Dwelling

Building and Dwelling

Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

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...
Book cover of The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1992

“[Sennett] has ended up writing the best available contemporary defense of anarchism. . . . The issues [he] raises are fundamental and profound. His book is utopian in the best sense—it tries to define a radically different future and to show that it could be constructed from the materials at...
Book cover of El respeto

El respeto

(Sobre la dignidad del hombre en un mundo de desigualdades)

by Richard Sennett
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2018

Richard Sennett se ocupa de la necesidad y de la responsabilidad social frente al abismo de la desigualdad; en un mundo confuso de relaciones sociales «flexibles», el respeto es algo que inquieta a todos. Sennett, que comienza con sus recuerdos de infancia en las tristemente célebres viviendas...
Book cover of El extranjero

El extranjero

Dos ensayos sobre el exilio

by Richard Sennett
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014

Richard Sennett es un autor de gran prestigio entre los lectores interesados en temas sociológicos. Así, La corrosión del carácter estudia las consecuencias antropológicas de la nueva organización del trabajo en el capitalismo de las últimas décadas del siglo XIX, El respeto es una reflexión...
Book cover of Uses of Disorder
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012

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...
Book cover of Respekt im Zeitalter der Ungleichheit
by Richard Sennett
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Manche radikalen Denker glauben, man müsse lediglich für mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit sorgen, um auch mehr gegenseitigen Respekt zwischen den Menschen zu wecken. Aber ist das überhaupt realistisch? Zieht Selbstachtung nicht automatisch mangelnden Respekt gegenüber denjenigen nach sich, die im unbarmherzigen...
Book cover of Construir y habitar

Construir y habitar

Ética para la ciudad

by Richard Sennett
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2019

Cómo deberían ser las ciudades del futuro? ¿Cómo ha evolucionado su planificación a lo largo de la historia? ¿Cómo afecta a nuestra vida el entorno urbano en el que vivimos? ¿Qué valores urbanísticos se deberían potenciar? ¿Qué lastres se deberían desterrar? Repensar la ciudad es el...
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