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The Hidden Injuries of Class by Jonathan Richard; Cobb Sennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city. In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover ...Show more
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. R ...Show more
The Uses of Disorder - Personal Identity and City Life by Richard Sennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned. When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it deman ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures And Politics Of Co-Operation by Richard Sennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. "Together" argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we mu ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation by Richard Sennett
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 simi ...Show more