Bücher von Richard Sennett

'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn 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 shows how the design of cities can enrich or diminish the everyday experience of those who dwell in them.The book ranges widely - from London, Paris and Barcelona to Shanghai, Mumbai and Medellin in Colombia - and draws on classic thinkers such as Tocqueville, Heidegger, Max Weber, and Walter Benjamin. It also draws on Sennett's many decades as a practical planner himself, testing what works, what doesn't, and why. He shows what works ethically is often the most practical solution for cities' problems. This is a humane and thrilling book, which allows us to think freshly about how we live in cities.'Sennett is my kind of urbanist. He sees the modern city. He reads its secrets as he walks down the street, kicking over the detritus of the past ... There is no alternative to the planner, but please a planner who has read Sennett's book' Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times

The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults-both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents-into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle classes that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. And he proposes a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, diversity, and creative disorder to bring into being adults who can openly respond to and deal with the challenges of life.

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 similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity. Together: the rituals, pleasures and politics of Co-operation explores why this has happened and what might be done about it.Sennett argues that living with people unlike ourselves requires more than goodwill: it requires skill. The foundations for skillful co-operation lie in learning to listen well and to discuss rather than debate. People who develop these capacities earn a reward: they can take pleasure in the company of others. Together traces the evolution of cooperative rituals in medieval churches and guilds, Renaissance workshops and courts, early modern laboratories and diplomatic embassies. In our lives today, it explains the trials and prospects of cooperation online, face-to-face in ethnic conflicts, among financial workers and community organizers.Exploring the nature of cooperation, why it has become weak, and how it could be strengthened, this visionary book offers a new way of seeing how humans can live together.

Unsere von Ungleichheit und permanentem Wettbewerb gezeichnete Gesellschaft bedarf Richard Sennett zufolge mehr denn je verlässlicher, ritualisierter Formen des Miteinanders. Sennett erläutert, was das Wesen von Zusammenarbeit ausmacht, warum sie so an Bedeutung verloren hat, vor allem aber, wie sie wieder als Wert wahrgenommen werden kann. Ob er über mittelalterliche Zünfte schreibt, über die Geschichte der Diplomatie oder über seine Interviews mit den massenhaft entlassenen Wall-Street-Angestellten nach dem Lehmann-Crash - Sennetts Herangehensweise ist stets interdisziplinär und pragmatisch. Beispiele aus Kunst, Musik und Architektur veranschaulichen seine Ausführungen so selbstverständlich wie solche aus Wirtschaft, Naturwissenschaft und Religion. Wie schon sein Bestseller Der flexible Mensch ist Zusammenarbeit nicht zuletzt eine brillante Analyse unserer modernen Arbeits- und Lebenswelt und damit ein bedeutendes politisches Statement zu einem zentralen Thema unserer Zeit.

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""The Marine Steam Engine"" is a comprehensive guidebook on the design and operation of steam engines used in marine vessels. Written by Richard Sennett and first published in 1898, this book is aimed at engineering students, young engineers, and officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine. The book covers a wide range of topics related to marine steam engines, including the principles of steam power, the design and construction of engines, the various types of engines, and their performance characteristics. It also discusses the maintenance and repair of steam engines, as well as safety considerations when operating them. The book is filled with detailed illustrations and diagrams to help readers understand the complex workings of marine steam engines. Overall, ""The Marine Steam Engine"" is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and technology of steam power in the maritime industry.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

In this fusion of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, Richard Sennett addresses the need and social responsibility for respect in the uncertain world of "flexible" relationships.

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 economic survival, The Hidden Injuries of Class takes an important step forward in the sociological critique of everyday life.

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

"Visionary, often brilliant." -Los Angeles Times