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Synopsis
A discussion of modern city life that provides a contemporary defence of anarchism, and encourages individual thoughts and dreams as an escape from the cliches of existence in today's world.
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Review
"Sennett speaks eloquently... [and] his argument remains powerful and relevant, an inspiration to a new generation of urbanists."
-- PD Smith, Guardian, 13th December 2008
About the Author
Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as the two previous volumes in his Homo Faber trilogy, The Craftsman and Together. He was founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and now teaches urban studies at the London School of Economics and at Harvard University, and researches labor relations in Columbia University's Center for Capitalism and Society. 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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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0140216723
- ISBN 13 9780140216721
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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