The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
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? This book offers an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living.
'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
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780141022093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141022094 |
| Title | The Craftsman |
| Author | Richard Sennett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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