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Paperback. Pub Date: 1996 Pages: 432 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. This vivid history of the city in Western Civilization tells the story of Urban Life through bodily experience. Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces. what they saw and heard. the smells that assailed them. where they ate. how they dressed. the mores of bathing and of making love-all in the architecture of stone and space from ancient Athens to modern New York. Early in Flesh and Stone. Richard Sennett probes the ways in which the ancient Athenians experienced nakedness. and the relation of nakedness to the shape of the ancient city. its troubled politics. and the inequalities between men and women. The story then moves to Rome in the time of the Emperor Hadrian. exploring Roman beliefs in the geometrical perfection of the body. The second ...

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An enthralling subject. . . . A compassionate and inquiring [book].--Richard Jenkyns

Fascinating . . . the drama of urban life springs alive for the reader.

Flesh and Stone is a fascinating excursion with an erudite guide. Sennett writes with intelligence and grace. . . .

Flesh and Stone is a fascinating excursion with an erudite guide. Sennett writes with intelligence and grace. . . .
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Richard Sennett teaches sociology at the London School of Economics and New York University

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  • PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0393313913
  • ISBN 13 9780393313918
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