By the time it opened its doors, those percentages were reversed. The result of this, we believe, is that the activities which keep people moving in a class society, which make them seek more money, more possessions, higher-status jobs, do not originate in a materialistic desire, or even sensuous appreciation, of things, but out of an attempt to restore a psychological deprivation that the class structure has effected in their lives. Each in his own way, Erikson and Riesman felt oppressed by the waste of life which surrounded them in Harvard, a university filled with so many very bright kids. Yes, it has the same dives into history, sharp insights and observations, and links into his life and friendships – but given the scale and complexity of its subject matter and the peculiarities of ‘the city’ industry, this book moves well beyond the essay format. Paris: Felix Alcan. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4729746/The-deserving-poor.html. Hannah Arendt (1906-75) – who, as have seen, was something of a mentor to Richard Sennett – famously argued that modernity involved a victory of animal laborans over Homo faber. So, I went to the University of Chicago, and I loathed it’ (Station 2011). [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1130356?format=mpeg4&quality=360p. That’s my philosophical church.” “The pragmatist movement from [William] James and [John] Dewey to Richard Rorty, Amartya Sen and myself is about discovering what people are capable of doing,” he explains. In his latest book, sociologist Richard Sennett, AB’64, explores the social craft of cooperation, The University of Chicago Magazine November/December. Last, there is a very real sense in which he was different as a child to many of his peers. The artwork is a commissioned work by the Hanoverian graffiti artist Patrik Wolters aka BeneR1 in August 2014 in teamwork with Kevin Lasner aka koarts … Wikimedia – ccasa3 licence. Routine glories. He has received many awards and honors, most recently the 2006 Hegel Prize for … Public space promotes synchronous activities. New York: Oxford University Press. Illich, Ivan (1974) Energy and Equity, London: Marion Boyars. Sennett, Richard (1980). He askes whether the physical ville can make good such difficulties? [https://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/life-practice#. It was Catholic and run by nuns of the Order of the Blessed Virgin. Modesty. Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. In the case of the latter, some of the responses to the book mirror the reaction to Riesman’s et. Sennett has written about the neighbourhood in Respect in a World of Inequality (2003: 7): Originally Cabrini was meant to be 75 per cent white and 25 per cent black. Authority. Il est fondateur du New York Institute for the Humanities. He argues that cities are crooked because they are diverse: with many migrants speaking dozens of languages, glaring inequalities and the stresses of everyday living. London: Granta. The Sources of Social Power. LE Retrieved March 4, 2020]. Abingdon: Routledge. Il vit actuellement à Londres où il est professeur à la London School of Economics. (op. The resulting book, as Jenny Turner (2003) comments, brought together two key themes in his work. As an observer of emerging social trends and the changing shape of modern society, he points to experiences and dynamics that need careful attention. Benn. Some key points appear concerning the first around the tensions between top-down and ground-up orientations. In this case, when researching and writing The Craftsman he was ‘struck again and again by a particular social asset in doing practical work: cooperation’ (2008: ix). He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. Power. Modern society lacks positive expressions of respect and recognition for others. New York: Knopf. Munich: Piper. However, it was loved by many readers looking to make sense of their experiences of city life at that point and of the changing cultures around them. [https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-richard-sennett/. Mills, C. Wright (1958a) The Causes of World War Three. Those commitments may well be a significant touchstone, but four other things also shine out. (2007). New Haven: Yale University Press. It became more speculative, more personal – and pointed to the need to understand these experiences of class rather differently. The ‘ands’ are important. (2009). Of particular note here are The Uses of Disorder, Authority, and Respect in a World of Inequality. These included the process by which skills are acquired, the nature of the cooperation involved in playing together (and the level of detachment also required) and different forms that dialogue takes (Richard Sennett talks about this in his 2009 interview with Alan Macfarlane). cit. cit.). Richard Sennett est sociologue et professeur à la prestigieuse London School of Economics et à la New York University. With an American turn of the social kaleidoscope, our fortunes slowly improved. It is classic Sennett, full of engaging insights and interesting lines of thought. cit. Aristotle approaches technê (craft) as a virtue and places it alongside another – phronêsis (practical wisdom). Sexuality and solitude, London Review of Books 3 (9) May 21, 1981. Personal identity and city life. Richard Sennett had got to know Arendt around the time she published Eichmann in Germany (1963) and was under fierce attack from different directions. | Homo Faber. Communitas: Means of livelihood and ways of life. Guttenplan, D. D. (2008). Interestingly, both his maternal and paternal grandparents had mixed marriages of Russian Orthodox and Russian Jewish partners. He had ‘sought to rescue Animal laboreus from the contempt with which Hannah Arendt treated him’ (2008 286). unlinking authority from legitimation and this opens up exploration of the most typical manifestation of power in modern society (Bauman 1982). Professeur à la London School of Economics et à la New York University, le sociologue Richard Sennett est l'auteur, aux Editions Albin Michel, du Travail sans qualités (2000), et de Respect.De la dignité de l'homme dans un monde d'inégalité (2003). Testez. L’e?volution creatrice. He argues that the system of power inherent in modem forms of flexi­bility consists of three elements: ‘discontinuous reinvention of institutions; flexible specialization of production; and concen­tration of without centralization of power’ (1998: 47). It is serious, develops an argument but does not follow a conventional academic route – which of course annoyed some. Sassen, S. (1991). (Harvard University 2017). (2003) The deserving poor, Daily Telegraph January 25. That is just about the highest compliment one can currently make in the light of the abject failure of many academics and most universities to attend to the needs of their students. Bâtir et habiter : Pour une éthique de la villeRichard SennettAlbin Michel, 2019, est dans l'appli Radio FranceDirect, podcasts, fictions. His focus is on ‘responsiveness to others, such as listening skills in conversation, and on the practical application of responsiveness at work or in the community’ (op. Central to the approach is the distinction made between ville and cité (2018: 12). This how Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal put it concerning that book: Whereas the book greatly impressed the intellectual community at large, it failed to impress many sociologists. Growing up absurd: Problems of youth in the organized society. All these conditions impel people to look for some other scene of attachment and depth. He grew up and has made homes in cities, written a series of books exploring city life (see, in particular, 1970b, 1991, 1994 and 2018), worked as a planner, and has been a consultant for ‘various bodies of the United Nations, mostly concerning public space’ (Sennett 2019a). Conversation between Alfred Brendel and Richard Sennett Music for Coexistence. Respect’s publication was accompanied by some very positive press reviews. 08/04/2008, Réécouter La culture du nouveau capitalisme, LE Having brought us this far, Sennett could have made a major contribution – perhaps looking across to Foucault’s discussions of power, and exploring other key writers like C Wright Mills (1956), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Steven Lukes (1974, 2005) (who, like Sennett, has also worked for many years at NYU) and Michael Mann (2013). London: Penguin Modern Classics. The project had replaced poor housing where the conditions had earned the area the nickname of the ‘Little Hell’. New York: Knopf. (2003: 29). Things were also made worse by overcrowding (there were up to 15,000 people living there), poverty, a lack of policing and rising crime rates. The Foreigner. Melissa Benn (2001) has commented that on his private life Richard Sennett is ‘guarded to a point of gracious stubbornness’. Foucault, Michel (1975 | 1979). cit. Sennett, Richard (2019a) The fight for the city, Eurozine February 14. Sennett, Richard (1977). The design and social life of cities. It also raised some fundamental questions, for example around the failure of historians to engage with the functioning of families (op. New York: W.W. Norton. The collective essays of C. Wright Mills. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia Universityco-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. An Evening of Brahms. An interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett, University of Cambridge Video and Audio Collections. On the social psychology of capitalism. Illich, I. First, Aristotle makes disposition a central concern. What we lose in the separation of these into separate essays, is how these relate to each other – and, in particular, how we are to conceptualize power. Foucault, Michel (1966 | 1970). Ein Bericht.Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. Lipset, S. M., & Lowenthal, L. Bonjour, Identifiez-vous. Urbanism became, internally, a gated community’ (2018: 27). Melissa Benn (2001) has suggested that the political commitments and orientations of his family – are central to understanding his work. His maternal grandparents went to Chicago where his grandfather – who was a mathematician – went to work for the General Electric Corporation. Without the tools that Homo faber designs in order to ease men’s labors and shorten their hours of work, human life would be nothing but toil and effort. Popper, K. (1945 | 2011) The Open Society and its Enemies. (2012: 278). New York: Knopf. Openness. Mills, C. Wright (1951) White Collar. He also played the piano. This involves addressing three challenges. 04/10/2019, Réécouter Démocratie, inégalités, mixité : des défis urbains, Démocratie, inégalités, mixité : des défis urbains, LE The Craftsman. I now had to make an effort to be in complex spaces, faced with the problem of staying upright and walking straight, and also with the neurological short-circuit that in crowds disorients those affected by strokes. Intercity scholar, The Guardian February 3. Richard Todd, Atlantic Monthly Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone and Respect. M. (2001). highlighting some processes that create and sustain inequalities in respect. The door to professional music was closed. The refusal to treat reason and passion as two mutually independent faculties and alternative bases of human behaviour disengages the idea of authority from this of legitimation and paves the way to consider seriously what is the most typical manifestation of power in modern society: the ‘bond of rejection’ In its various forms, of which ‘disobedient dependence’ Sennett presents most comprehensively and cogently. Alongside concerns around Richard growing up in the area –there were increasing tensions in the community. [http://www.themillennialimpact.com/sites/default/files/images/2018/MIR-10-Years-Looking-Back.pdf. cit). This generates a personal malady that is particularly acute in the intellectual who has labored under the illusion that his thinking makes a difference… (1963: 293). Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. New York, Free Press of Glencoe. Mills, C. Wright (1958b) ‘The structure of power in American society’, British Journal of Sociology IX(1). In The Hidden Injuries of Class, Sennett and Cobb succeed in highlighting important questions about the experiences of many workers – and the significance of respect and dignity. He is concerned with learning – what does the process of making things reveal to us about ourselves? Rebellions against powers-that-be follow (or entail) a ‘legitimation crisis’. To understand them you have to view them as a whole. cit.). cit.). New York: Free Life. It also renders the grip of authority largely independent from its rationally articulated legitimation. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Alongside David Reisman, who was committed to working with his students, Richard Sennett was also lucky enough to get to know Reisman’s colleague, Erik Erikson (1902-94) – the developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst. Arendt’s treatment of Animal laboreus was grounded in a respect for hermeneutic enquiry but it is open to questioning. It might not be that the mind ‘engages once labour is done… (perhaps) thinking and feeling are contained within the process of making’ (op. It is less a performance than a journey: ‘As a maker, you put one foot in front of the other and you own the journey’ (Korn 2015: 104). Globalization and its discontents. (Sennett 2018: 627) [I have broken up the original paragraph into five points and a comment.]. In other words, practical wisdom, rather than craft, might be important. Parry, R. (2020). Unlike Sennett, he writes as someone embedded and at home with a craft. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) provided him with, among other things, a space to explore and argue about ideas; a model of great courage; and an overarching theme – Homo faber – for his trilogy of books on craftsmanship, cooperation and building and dwelling (Sennett 2008, 2012, 2018). Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at New York University and at The London School of Economics. Talking about the critiques of historians by post-modernist theorists and critics, Richard J. Evans argued that objective historical knowledge is both desirable and attainable, but that involves a certain disposition and practice. The Cabrini Green public housing project in Chicago byJet Lowe | Wikimedia PD. cit.). Cambridge; Cambridge University Press. Evans. Retrieved March 3, 2019]. Sennett then goes on to say that Aristotle defined skill as ‘techné, the technique of making something happen, doing it well’. cit. (2008). Palais-Royal. Finally, through seed-planning the themes themselves – where to place schools, housing, shops or parks – are allowed to develop independently throughout the city, yielding a complex image of the urban whole. Volume 4: Globalizations 1945-2011. New York, NY: Pantheon Books. In other words, the psychological motivation instilled by a class society is to heal a doubt about the self rather than create more power over things and other persons in the outer world. Richard Sennett se penche, dans cet essai, sur les ruptures qu’introduit le nouveau capitalisme par rapport aux aspirations libertaires des années soixante. 09/01/2010, Réécouter Que gagne-t-on à travailler? 16/01/2014, LE In a series of lectures delivered at Yale in 2004,  he argued that only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary social conditions. From there, Sennett argues that responsiveness is less an ethical disposition (as Michael Ignatieff suggests) but ’emerges from practical activity’ (Sennett 2012: 16). She was not on good terms with her grandfather at that time (in part because of her political commitments) and there was not a lot of money coming in to support Sennett’s upbringing. Sennett explores cooperation as a craft. Sennett’s chosen form – the extended essay – and his orientation lend themselves to social criticism or social commentary, rather than the development of social theory. I will look humbly at the past and say, despite them all: It really happened, and we really can, if we are very scrupulous and careful and self-critical, find out how it did and reach some tenable conclusions about what it all meant. cit. Sassen, S. (1999). These personas can be found in much of his subsequent work, but it is the essayist that seems to dominate his writing. Everyone is subject to a scheme of values whereby they validate self by wearing ‘badges of ability’ to win respect – both from others and themselves. Obituary: Oscar Handlin; historian led US immigration study, The Boston Globe September 22. In the same year that Families Against the City appeared, a rather different book also hit the shelves. Uses of Disorder takes the essay form that was also to be a characteristic of much of his work. Amazon.fr: Richard Sennett. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. ‘The city seems crooked in that asymmetry afflicts its cité and its ville’ (op. Columbia SC. Réécouter Coopérer : un remède à la crise ? As we have seen, he does tend to take on different personae in his books. She was keen to move out of the project. Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben. Often, we do not recognize what we need from others or what they want (or ought to want) from us. Previously, we looked at Sennett the historian, Sennett the sociologist, and Sennett the public intellectual. Certains s'occupent de la ville, de son bâti ; d'autres s'occupent de la cité, c'est-à-dire de la manière d'habiter la ville. cit. ‘I write in order to change myself and in order not to think the same thing as before’ (2000: 240). Retrieved November 21, 2019]. Turner, J. These discussions contain some important points and questions but become more speculative as this part of the book progresses. (Page numbers refer to the 2017 epub version). People obey commands because they believe that whoever gave them, did so of right. Third, there is the question of whether Sennett makes his argument against Arendt stand up. However, the craftsman often faces ‘conflicting objective standards of excellence; the desire to something well for its own sake can be impaired by competitive pressure, by frustration, or by obsession’ (op.cit.). Retrieved September 12, 2019]. The research had involved interviews with 150 individuals, 10 interviewers, four transcribers, four years’ work and substantial funding from the Ford Foundation. Zorbaugh, H. W. (1929) The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North Side. Portrait of Hannah Arendt on a wall in the courtyard of her birthplace at Lindener Marktplatz 2, on the corner of Falkenstraße, in the district of Linden-Mitte. An open ville will avoid committing the sins of repetition and static form; it will create the material conditions in which people might thicken and deepen their experience of collective life. The final three chapters look at how cooperation can be repaired and strengthened. Luckily Sennett does not conform to this. Edited by Irving H. Horowitz. Knott, M. L. (2014). There is also the relationship between respect for others and self-respect. Email: richard.sennett@nyu.edu New York: Knopf. It pointed to ways in which the discourses around urbanism could develop. A review of Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman, Times Literary Supplement May 16 2008 page 16. (2003). As might be expected pinning down what is meant here by respect is difficult: It can involve recognizing and honouring another; it certainly entails dignity. identifying trends in capitalism – a discontinuous reinvention of institutions; flexible specialization of production; and concen­tration of, without centralization of, power. 25/01/2014. legi de Filosofia i ho fa regularment amb l'Institut d'Humanitats a Barcelona. The last chapter turns to the challenges of strengthening cooperation within local communities – especially those ‘whose economic heart is weak’ (2012: 390). He had come to know David Riesman (1909-2002) – famous for his 1950 study The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, written with Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. However, one of the most interesting comparisons is with C Wright Mills (1916-1962) partly because they shared a concern with craftsmanship as a focus for exploration. (2018). Turner, J. However, the call of music was strong. The 20-year battle to demolish Chicago’s notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, CityMetric, November 15. It makes use of type-forms in its building to create an urban version of theme and variations in music. Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, to a Jewish family of Russian emigres. [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/richard-sennett-back-to-the-bench-779345.html. 18 October 2018 Debate + Festivals + Music The Possible City International Debate in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council . Retrieved: April 6, 2020]. He argues that ‘finance capitalism’ has weakened the triangle and the social bonds it forges. This book ‘puts Homo faber in the city’ (2018: 27) and the fault line between the lived and the built. However, it placed a very strong influence on helping the children to achieve. cit. Ten years later, it seems little had been learned in this area of the Academy – and the situation remains the same another fifty years on. | Harmondsworth: Pelican Books. Cité is both the characteristics of a local way of life and a kind of consciousness. New York University Archives (2019) Guide to the Records of The New York Institute for the Humanities RG.37.4, New York University Archives. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Richard Sennett. Frisch, M. (1957 | 2006). Richard Sennett, né le 1 janvier 1943 à Chicago, est un sociologue et historien américain qui enseigne à la London School of Economics et à l'université de New York, également romancier et musicien. To find out why people obey, one should study the ways in which they legitimise the right to command. It does so in two ways: first, by the images it projects of why people belong to high or low classes—class presented as the ultimate outcome of personal ability; second, by the definition the society makes of the actions to be taken by people of any class to validate their dignity—legitimizations of self which do not, cannot work and so reinforce the original anxiety. Most were Jewish, but it was a cultural milieu, not an ethnic one’ (Benn 2001). Bakhtin, M. (2004). Mutuality is also involved and expressed. [https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/2017-centennial-medalist-citations. Paris: Gallimard | New York: Pantheon/Random House. Ses essais l'ont imposé en Europe comme l'une des figures les plus originales de la critique sociale d'aujourd'hui. Interestingly, the latter was an area that Sennett turned to for his next book. Eventually, they settled in Washington, DC, but by this time Sennett was also touring with a Bach cantata group in parts of the mid-West, and a little in Chicago and New York. It entails doing and thinking and being guided by an ethical disposition. Les livres de l'auteur; Richard Sennett se penche, dans cet essai, sur les ruptures qu’introduit le nouveau capitalisme par rapport aux aspirations libertaires des années soixante. 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. Flesh and Stone: The body and the city in western civilization. Green, D. (2015). (1999). He studied under David Riesman, Erik Erikson, and Oscar Handlinat Harvard, graduating with his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization in 1969. Tools for conviviality. Some of them tended to react to The Lonely Crowd as just another, perhaps more brilliant, literary critique of the society; their most polite formula has been to say that “The Lonely Crowd may be a good book, but it certainly is not sociology.”, This reaction to a book written by a professor of sociology about American society is indicative of certain unfortunate current developments in sociology. 08/12/2016, Réécouter Un regard américain sur Michel Foucault avec le sociologue Richard Sennett, Un regard américain sur Michel Foucault avec le sociologue Richard Sennett, LE Deschooling society. Princeton NJ. Sassen, S. (1988). : University of South Carolina Press. The comparison with Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is instructive in part, as Sennett has written with him, in part as he also drew from disparate sources and was not a particularly systematic thinker (Taylor 2011). Retrieved: April 12, 2020]. Arendt, H.  (1963|2006). New York: New Press. Richard Sennett argues that disobedient thoughts and actions tend to reproduce and reaffirm the significance of authority. The book examined ‘the conditions of family life for one group of middle-class people at the point in America, during the decades after the Civil War, when the massive cities took form’ (op.