The Craftsman
$38.27
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2009
Summary
One of the most original and exciting books about what it means to make things, by a practitioner and eminent thinker.
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 argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141022093 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141022094 |
| Author: | Richard Sennett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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‘Richard Sennett is a prime observer of society … one of his great strengths, the thing that makes his narrative so gripping, is the sheer range of his thinking and his brilliance in relating the past to the present’ - Fiona MacCarthy, The Guardian ‘A lifetime’s learning has gone into this book … Sennett writes beautifully’ - Roger Scruton, Sunday Times
About The Author
Richard Sennett
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. He has won the Amalfi and Ebert prizes for sociology and in 2006 was awarded the Hegel Prize by the City of Stuttgart.
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