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Title: The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0-393-30879-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An intellectual Celebration Ranging from History toSociology
Comment: Sennett scrutinizes those problems caused by the inbalance between personal and public life.According to Sennett, the 'public life' which is a significant piece of life besides the family and friendships was once so lively and meant much to individuals.There used to be a 'publicity' that contributed to the individuals' skills of 'play'through emotinal ties with strangers and to the civilization of the individual.Being a 'public man' well expressed in the 18th century European cities has become a gradually weakened phenomenon being replaced with the 'private life'.And has become as significant as the private life allows it to...Sennett asks,"How has the stranger been transformed into a threatening factor? How is it that today, keeping silent and remaining as the audience is the only way of joining the public life? In turn, how do these factors foster personality deficiencies? Solitude that is a result of modernism renders the individual a person captured by the private life.Sennett explains this process through works of Balzac and Diderot, theater, music, architecture,Dreyfus case and Richard Nixon. Richard Sennett is by no means hopeless; he is exploring the possibilites of getting to know 'the other' instead of imagining a 'lost public paradise'.
Rating: 5
Summary: The end of the public realm
Comment: Beyond Habermas' description of the changes that have taken place in the Western public sphere, with a better emphasis on empirical and historical data, the book gives a detailed account on the rise and fall of our interacting abilities. From the marketplace to the theater, the 19th century (and then the 20th) saw the decline of «play», along with its replacement by vicarious figures, like the «genius», the performing arts «vedettes» and now the politician as someone who feels (and does) what we are not anymore able to feel. Instead of hysteria, the civilizational disease is now narcissism, the unableness to act regardless of one's inner feelings. To be read along with Sennett's other masterpiece, a romance entitled «Palais-Royal».
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Title: The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0393319873 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0393313913 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0393308782 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0393309096 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett ISBN: 0393051269 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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