Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett , born in 1943, is a sociologist and American historian which teaches with the London School off Economics and at the university of New York, also novelist and musician. Pushed towards sociology by Hannah Arendt, he recognizes the influence of Michel Foucault on his work.

It is interested initially in the working life in urban environment, tackles questions of architecture, then widens its field being studied of the corrosion of the character induced by the instability of the professional paths in flexible capitalism . It is based on the accounts of life, in particular of workers condemned to the mobility which will not leave them the possibility of tying durable bonds.

Through the study of the modern city, it is interested in the figure of exiled, of which the others cannot include/understand the origin and what modelled it.

Works translated into French

  • Tyrannies of the intimacy , Threshold, 1979.
  • the Family against the city: middle-classes of Chicago at the industrial era 1872-1890 , Inks, 1981.
  • Authority , collection “the space of the policy”, Beech, 1982.
  • Palais Royal , Albin Michel, 1988.
  • One Evening Brahms , Beech, 1985.
  • Frogs of Transylvania , Beech, 1985.
  • Conscience of the eye: town planning and company , Verdier, 2000.
  • work without quality: human consequences of the Flexibility , Albin Michel, 2000.
  • Flesh and Pierre: the body and the city in Western civilization , Verdier, 2002.
  • Respect: dignity of the man in a mode of inequality , Hatchet, 2005.
  • culture of the new capitalism , Albin Michel, 2006.

External bonds

  • Report of reading '' work without quality '' (www.lise.cnrs.fr)

  • Comment of '' work without '' quality, re-examined catholic '' Esprit & Life '' (www.esprit-et-vie.com)
  • Biography and intervention in the conference '' the contemporary city in question '' (www.archi.fr)
  • the study of the city (www.univ-paris12.fr)
  • “the urban civilization reorganized by flexibility”, '' diplomatic Le Monde '', 2001 (www.monde-diplomatique.fr)
  • " the cultural ideal of new the capitalisme" , card of reading of the culture of the new capitalism, by Christian Ruby, doctor and teaching in philosophy (www.espacestemps.net)

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