The Fall of Public Man (Open Market Edition)
by Richard Sennett
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Author: Richard SennettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06
ISBN: 0393308790
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Book Review: An intellectual Celebration Ranging from History toSociology
Summary: 5 Stars
Sennett scrutinizes those problems caused by the inbalance between personal and public life.According to Sennett, the 'public life' which is a significant piece of life besides the family and friendships was once so lively and meant much to individuals.There used to be a 'publicity' that contributed to the individuals' skills of 'play'through emotinal ties with strangers and to the civilization of the individual.Being a 'public man' well expressed in the 18th century European cities has become a gradually weakened phenomenon being replaced with the 'private life'.And has become as significant as the private life allows it to...Sennett asks,"How has the stranger been transformed into a threatening factor? How is it that today, keeping silent and remaining as the audience is the only way of joining the public life? In turn, how do these factors foster personality deficiencies? Solitude that is a result of modernism renders the individual a person captured by the private life.Sennett explains this process through works of Balzac and Diderot, theater, music, architecture,Dreyfus case and Richard Nixon. Richard Sennett is by no means hopeless; he is exploring the possibilites of getting to know 'the other' instead of imagining a 'lost public paradise'.
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"Sennett presses social theory and historical experience to his service in developing a provocative thesis: that the public world stage has been usurped by the private psychic scene to the detriment of both individual and society."--Carl Schorske, Princeton University. "Stimulating and challenging."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times.General Books
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