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 publishedby Allen Lane in January 2003.
[...] Sennett is at once a historian, sociologist, student of
psychoanalytic doctrine . . . and celebrant of city life. . . .
Seldom have I read a serious work of social theory that explains as
much contemporary experience as Sennett's does. --Robert
Lekachman
One of the most stimulating and challenging books to be written in
years. . . . A major attempt . . . to re-examine the assumptions
and objectives of the 1960s and transcend them without compromising
their ideals. One admires the breadth of Professor Sennett's
erudition, the reach of his historical imagination. . . . By all
means buy this book and read it. --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sennett presses social theory and historical experience to his
service in developing a provocative thesis: that the public world
stage has been usurped by the private psychic scene to the
detriment of both individual and society. Sennett's quest for the
causes of the impoverishment of civil life in modern industrial
society opens fascinating perspectives into the relationship
between theater, politics, urban life, and the changing function of
the family. --Carl Schorske, Princeton University
A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public
expression. . . . Sennett is at once a historian, sociologist,
student of psychoanalytic doctrine . . . and celebrant of city
life. . . . Seldom have I read a serious work of social theory that
explains as much contemporary experience as Sennett's does. --
Robert Lekachman
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