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The Craftsman

By Richard Sennett

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The Craftsman

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Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well? Pure competition, Sennett shows, will never produce good work. Instead, the values of the craftsman, whether in a Stradivari violin workshop or a modern laboratory, can enrich our lives and change the way we anchor ourselves in the world around us. The past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working - using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials - which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognize this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible. > Roger Scruton, Sunday Times > Fiona MacCarthy, Guardian > Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times > Boyd Tonkin, Independent Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone and Respect. He was founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is now University Professor at New York University and Academic Governor and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2009-02-05
Publication Date:
2009-02-05
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141022094
ISBN13:
9780141022093
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
248 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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