Richard Sennett now works at the LSE where he runs their Cities Programme. His previous publications include his best-seller THE CORROSION OF CHARACTER. His next book, RESPECT: THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER IN A WORLD OF INEQUALITY, will be...

Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibility across the gulf of inequality. In the uncertain world of "flexible" social...

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,...

Richard Sennett was founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is now University Professor at New York University. He has previously won the Amalfi and Ebert prizes for sociology and in 2010 was awarded the...

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...

Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as two previous volumes in his Homo Faber trilogy, The Craftsman and Together. For decades he has advised urban programmes for the...

A philosophically-minded enquiry into the nature of practical activity, asking why people try to do a good job and have pride in what they do. von Sennett, Richard

The Craftsman von Sennett, Richard

A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forwardBuilding and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned von Sennett, Richard

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