Richard Sennett: 20 books

This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. 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...

"Carne y piedra" es una historia de la ciudad en la civilización occidental contada a través de la experiencia corporal de las personas. Apoyándose en un enfoque multidisciplinar y en su vasta erudición, Richard Sennett describe aspectos íntimos de la vida (cómo se movían hombres...

El presente volumen es el segundo de la trilogía del Homo faber proyectada por Sennett. El primero, El artesano, versaba sobre el trabajo manual, y el tercero abordará el tema de la vida en las ciudades. Juntos se ocupa de la natu­raleza de la cooperación, explica sus características y estudia...

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...

"Visionary, often brilliant." —Los Angeles Times 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.

"A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression. . . ."--Robert Lekachman, Saturday Review