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Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York City assumed ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
In 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 sho ...Show more
Designing Disorder - Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Richard Sennett; Pablo Sendera
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking The Uses of Disorder, that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these stil ...Show more
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Pablo Richard; Sendra Sennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Rethinking the open city planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adap ...Show more
Foreigner by Sennett, Richard
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world’s greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance V ...Show more
Respect :The Formation of Character in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Examines the forses that erode respect in modern society. 'Dazzling ... an elegant mix of interview, anecdote and wide research' Jenny Turner, Guardian Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply? In this provocative and timely book, Richard Sennett examines the ...Show more
The Corrosion of Character by Richard Sennett
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many other ...Show more
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and a ...Show more
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focu ...Show more
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett here surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life - how the work ethic is changin ...Show more
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Castle Lectures Series in Ethics, Politics & Economics
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life--how the work ethic is changing; how ...Show more
The Fall of the Public Man by Richard Sennett
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Richard Sennett's "The Fall of Public Man" examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for ...Show more