The Craftsman
With this volume, author and sociologist Sennett (The Culture of the New Capitalism) launches a three-book examination of “material culture,” asking “what the process of making concrete things reveals to us about ourselves.” Taking in everything from Pandora and Hephaestus to Linux programmers, Sennett posits that the spirit of craftsmanship-an “enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake”-is … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Richard Sennett | Subject: Miscellaneous