The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life - Softcover

Sennett, Richard

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9780571161881: The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

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ISBN 10: 057116188X ISBN 13: 9780571161881

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1996

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An American social critic sets out to show how the excessively ordered community freezes adults - young idealists as well as their security-conscious parents - into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behaviour among the urban middle classes that are stultifying, narrow and violence-prone. He also proposes a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, diversity and creative disorder to bring into being adults who can openly respond to and deal with the challenges of life.

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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 is professor of social and cultural theory at the London School of Economics, and Bemis Professor of Social Science at MIT. Among his books is The Culture of the New Capitalism (2006), published by Yale.

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