Richard Sennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 85327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Sennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sennett |
| SIGNATURE | SENNETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 96 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1882 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future “Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking.”—Jonathan Meades, The Guardian In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed thei…
Are the Arts Essential?
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts e…
Darkness and Light: The powers of performing
“Hold Them to Account”. Richard Sennett in Conversation with Boris Vormann
The Public Realm
The cities everyone wants to live in would be clean and safe, possess efficient public services, support a dynamic economy, provide cultural stimulation, and help heal society’s divisions of race, class, and ethnicity. These are not the cities we live in. This is so in part because the city is not its own master; cities can fail on all these counts due to national government policy or to social ills and economic forces beyond local control. Howev…
Resistance
Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2
The Foreigner
Public Roles/Personality in Public
In the eighteenth century home, loose-fitting and simple garments were the growing preference of all classes. There appears the first of the terms of the divide between the public and the private realm: the private realm being more natural, the body appeared as expressive in itself. Squire remarks that, during the Regence, Paris saw the complete adoption of a neglige appearance. For one thing, many of the new mercantile occupations had no sevente…
La ciudad abierta
Las ciudades en las que todo el mundo quiere vivir deberían ser limpias y seguras, poseer servicios públicos eficientes, estar soportadas por una economía dinámica, proveer estímulo cultural y también hacer lo posible por remediar las divisiones por raza, clase y etnia. Estas, no son las ciudades en las que vivimos.Las ciudades fracasan en todos estos aspectos debido a las políticas gubernamentales, a problemas sociales irreparables, y a fuerzas …
Cafés instead of seminar rooms
Cafés instead of seminar rooms
Conversation avec Richard Sennett sur son parcours intellectuel à l’occasion de la parution de Bâtir et Habiter (trad. fr. Astrid von Busekist, Albin Michel, 2019), où l’auteur précise le sens de son engagement pour une ville ouverte
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Rule by Misrule
S,m,l,xl & “Generic City” (1994–1998): No End to Revision
Destructive Gemeinschaft
Every generation engages in a life-long struggle with what it first believed. Sometimes people repudiate early ideals, but their temperament remains unchanged, as, for example, those rigid Stalinists who have become fiercely anti-Marxist. In other generations, like this, the first truths are not challenged explicitly, rather they are affirmed with a voice that grows ever more tired, weak, and resigned. Victorian bourgeois prudery was so extreme i…
Pour un urbanisme éthique
American Cities: The Grid Plan and the Protestant Ethic
The Science of Urbanization and the Open City
Good urbanization, as outlined in the New Urban Agenda, requires a three decade time horizon, a focus on value creation, capture and sharing and a pact between all levels of government. Governments must urgently guide urban configuration, particularly in fast-growing cities. This requires a systemic approach, that integrates municipal finance, urban planning and design and urban regulation to produce good urbanization. In parallel, open-system th…
Forces Shaping 21st Century Urbanization
Population dynamics have enormous impacts on national and global development and pose particular challenges to urbanization. The growing differences between Europe, Japan and the Land-Rich Developed Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa require focus- and speed-differentiated approaches to good urbanization. Urban development can no longer just assume that water can be simply extracted from the ground and moved to where it is needed. The relatively si…
The sense of touch
For musicians, the sense of touch defines the physical experience of art: lips applied to reed, fingers pushing down keys or strings. A pianist or violinist has constantly to explore resistance, either in the instrument or in the playing body. This effort says something also about 'being in touch' in everyday life. There are many kinds of vibratos, some slow and liquid which colour long notes, some which last no more than an instant. The musical …
The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda
The Public Realm
The open city
The cities everyone wants to live in should be clean and safe, possess efficient public services, be supported by a dynamic economy, provide cultural stimulation, and also do their best to heal society's divisions of race, class, and ethnicity. The Brittle City represents a view of society itself as a closed system. The closed system is a conception which dogged state socialism throughout the 20th century as much as it shaped bureaucratic capital…
The City as an Anarchic System
From The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, by Richard Sennett. Copyright © 1970 by Richard Sennett. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Richard Sennett was born in Chicago in 1943 and took his B.A. at the University of Chicago in 1964 and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969. He teaches sociology at Brandeis University and is director of the Urban Family Study Center and a co-director of the Cambridge Institute. Mr. Sennett b…
Flesh and stone: The body and the city in Western civilization
Flesh and Stone is a new history of the city in Western civilization, one that tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. It is a 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 their noses, where they are, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love - all in the spaces of the city from ancient Athens to modern New York. Early …
The Hidden Injuries of Class
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define the internal, emotionally hurtful forms of class difference in America now becoming visible with the …
Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities
Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Poiesis Means Making
Urban disorder today
Rob Sampson's research has important implications for how we understand cities, in the way urbanites themselves understand each other. Sampson demonstrates that perceptions of urban disorder are fundamentally tied to the hard facts of racial and economic inequality, which is to say that the visual evidence of disorder is projective rather than deductive (in psychoanalytic terms). This means we are processing something other than what we see direc…
What Do We Mean by Talent
This article explores the multifaceted concept of talent, questioning its conventional understanding as an innate gift. Sennett argues that talent is not simply a pre-existing quality but rather a complex interplay of aptitude, practice, and cultural context. He challenges the notion of the 'gifted' individual, emphasizing the importance of sustained effort, mentorship, and the social environment in shaping talent. The article also examines how d…
Narcissism and Modern Culture
The clinical data upon which classical psychoanalysis was built have in part disappeared. In their place has arisen a kind of psychic distress among the urban bourgeoisie unforeseen fifty years ago. The question I want to explore is what a dramatic change like this means: have changes in the society brought new kinds of psychological problems to the fore? has progress in the science of psychology made us able to recognize symptoms which were unre…
Fractures
Creativity, Pragmatism and the Social Sciences: A Discussion between Hans Joas and Richard Sennett
In this discussion, Richard Sennett and Hans Joas elaborate on the role of both creativity and pragmatism in the social sciences. They pursue these topics from different perspectives: the role creativity played in the history of ideas and in classical pragmatism, what creativity means in the practice of the arts and how a creative pragmatist sociology might be possible. Pragmatism, they conclude, may not be a new idea, but the practice of pragmat…
La corrosión del carácter
La conciencia del ojo
The Fall of Public Man
This article explores the decline of public life and the rise of a privatized existence in Western societies. It argues that the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed a shift in the nature of social interaction, moving away from a culture of display and public performance towards a more intimate and personal realm. This transformation is attributed to several factors, including the rise of the novel, changes in family structure, and the development o…
Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890
Journal Article Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872–1890. By Richard Sennett. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. x + 258 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $8.50.) Get access Tamara K. Hareven Tamara K. Hareven Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 936–938, https://doi.org/10.23…
The Relations Between the Size, Speed, and Power of Marine Engines
I: XEED scarcely remind the members of this Institution that the tions betmecn the sizc, speed, and power of marine steam-engine not absolute and unchangeable, but that they hare been continut varying during the progress of steam navigation.In fact, we say, that advance in marine engineering Iins resulted from, and Iuarked by, the modifications made from timc to time in 1 relations
Classic essays on the culture of cities.
The City in American History
Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890
Genteel backlash: Chicago 1886
The brutality of modern families
Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Journal Article Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History. Ed. by Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. xiii + 430 pp. Charts, tables, and notes. $12.50.) Get access Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Sam Bass Warner, Jr. University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 3, December 1970, Pages 737–738, https:/…
Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Family Analysis: Readings and Replication of Selected Studies
Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
This book, based on a conference at Yale University, explores ways of understanding the first industrial cities to cities of today. The essays in the book define what has come to be known as the “new urban history.” The cities studied range from small communities – such as Springfield, Massachusetts – to giants like Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston. While the majority of the contributors deal with American cities, four essays examine cities in C…
Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890
Journal Article Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872–1890. By Richard Sennett. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. x + 258 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $8.50.) Get access Tamara K. Hareven Tamara K. Hareven Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 936–938, https://doi.org/10.23…
Nineteenth Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History
Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities
Families against the City
Studying Nineteenth-Century Cities
Family Fictions
Families Against the City
The Hidden Injuries of Class
Charismatic de-legitimation: A case study
Narcissism and Modern Culture
The clinical data upon which classical psychoanalysis was built have in part disappeared. In their place has arisen a kind of psychic distress among the urban bourgeoisie unforeseen fifty years ago. The question I want to explore is what a dramatic change like this means: have changes in the society brought new kinds of psychological problems to the fore? has progress in the science of psychology made us able to recognize symptoms which were unre…
The Hidden Injuries of Class
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define the internal, emotionally hurtful forms of class difference in America now becoming visible with the …
The Psychology of Society: An Anthology of Classic Writings on the Basic Issues, Developmental Concepts, and Leading Theories of Social Psychology
The Fall of Public Man
The Fall of Public Man
This article explores the decline of public life and the rise of a privatized existence in Western societies. It argues that the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed a shift in the nature of social interaction, moving away from a culture of display and public performance towards a more intimate and personal realm. This transformation is attributed to several factors, including the rise of the novel, changes in family structure, and the development o…
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