At the same time he describes his students here, "as the best I've ever had". Sennett claims he has written enough. He would like to end his days as he began them, as a professional performer or possibly running a music festival, maybe somewhere like the Wigmore Hall in London. When he has finished the current book on socialism, "I have probably only one book left in me. I would like to do something on the sociology of performing." Pour J. Bonhomme (2012), c’est précisément l’absence d’un dispositif d’ordonnancement impersonnel d (...)

A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett’s insights into the danger of the cult of individualism remain thoroughly relevant to our world today. In a new epilogue, he extends his analysis to the new “public” realm of social media, questioning how public culture has fared since the digital revolution. The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett – eBook Details He was also one of the first writers to predict, again with admirable restraint, the economic and political turbulence that may lie ahead. For, as the chilling last line of the Corrosion Of Character observes, a regime "which provides human beings no deep reasons to care about one another cannot long preserve its legitimacy". Comme le dit D. Trump, dans un entretien avec le Time en mars 2017 : « Je suppose que je ne me débrouille pas si mal ; la preuve ? je suis le Président et vous ne l’êtes pas » (« I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know ») . Sennett takes a skeptical view of our tendency to judge by apparent personality and intention, above or even in place of acts on record. He notes the dangers of this view: a crippling personal (and societal) incidence of narcissism and susceptibility to charlatans and charismatic exploiters to name a few. What has emerged in the last hundred years, as communities of collective *personality* have begun to form, is that the shared imagery becomes a deterrent to shared action. Just as personality itself has become an antisocial idea, collective personality becomes group identity in society hostile to, difficult to translate into, group activity. Community has become a phenomenon of collective being rather than collective action, save in one way. The only transaction for the group to engage in is that of purification, of rejection and chastisement of those who are not "like" others. Since the symbolic materials usable in forming collective personality are unstable, communal purification is unending, a continual quest after the loyal American, the authentic Aryan, the "genuine" revolutionary. The logic of collective personality is the purge; its enemy, all acts of alliance, cooperation, or United Front. Broadly stated, when people today seek to have full and open emotional relations with each other, they succeed only in wounding each other. This is the logical consequence of the destructive gemeinschaft which arose when personality made its appearance in society."The architect Richard Rogers, who has known Sennett for 15 years, says, "We are very much on the same intellectual wavelength. Richard believes in the importance of the public domain, that people should have direct involvement in relation to public space and buildings. We are both interested in sustainable development and the role of cities in a civil society."

Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Lilti A., 2008, « The Writing of Paranoïa: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Celebrity », Representations, 103, pp. 53-80. Thompson J., 2005, « La nouvelle visibilité », Réseaux. Communication, technologie, société, 129-130, pp. 62-87.A provocative book ... Sennett brings us to an undeniably recognizable place, the contemporary urban scene' At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak [1982], An Evening of Brahms [1984] and Palais Royal [1987]. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, [1990], a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone [1992], a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Fall_of_Public_Man_40th_Anniversary_E_-_Richard_Sennett.pdf, The_Fall_of_Public_Man_40th_Anniversary_E_-_Richard_Sennett.epub But Sennett's work can also be understood as a life-long attempt to come to terms with his radical heritage, to both honour the idealism of an old left and re-mould it in the light of contemporary realities. Born in Chicago in 1943, he was a classic child of the left. His father and all his uncles were in the Communist party and his mother "was always involved in the labour movement", he says. His father and uncle fought in the Spanish Civil War, first against the fascists, and then against the communists. Proudly he shows me a portrait on his study wall of the Lincoln section of the International brigade. It includes his father and uncle, upright men in caps prepared to die to defend someone else's freedom.

Les mouvements sociaux qui émergent d’en bas ne peuvent pas être « politiques » au sens noble du te (...) A truly remarkable book. Sennett dives into the depths of (Western) cultural and behavioural change during the last three centuries. This book has been published in the 1970ies, but has lost nothing of its applicability to modern times. The majority of a previously politically engaged public has slowly morphed into spectators, organised in groups of secularised believers, who cannot be argued with. Kaufmann L., 2016, « La “ligne brisée” : ontologie relationnelle, réalisme social et imagination morale », Revue du Mauss, 47, pp. 105-128. Dayan D., 2000, « Télévision, le presque-public », Réseaux. Communication, technologie, société, 100, pp. 429-456.Comme le montrent très bien les travaux de M. Berger (2015), seules des théories de l’espace public (...) Sennett R., 1979, Les Tyrannies de l’intimité, trad. de l’anglais (États-Unis) de The Fall of the public man par A. Berman et R. Folkman, Paris, Éd. Le Seuil.

Richard Sennett's previous books include The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone and Respect. He was founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and is now University Professor at New York University and Academic Governor and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Read more DetailsThe Hidden Injuries Of Class still makes fascinating reading, largely because of its sensitive and subtle exploration of working-class lives. It dissects the ways in which doctrines of equality may work against most people in the modern world; with inherited social distinctions now apparently erased, "social difference can now appear as a question of character, of moral resolve, will and competence". It is an argument which has as much resonance in the age of so-called depressed affluence as it had 30 years ago.