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Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, says the author, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. In this thought-provoking book, one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of craftsmen past and present, identifies deep connections between material consciousness and ethical values, and challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in today’s world.
The Craftsman engages the many dimensions of skillfrom the technical demands to the obsessive energy required to do good work. Craftsmanship leads Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London; in the modern world he explores what experiences of good work are shared by computer programmers, nurses and doctors, musicians, glassblowers, and cooks. Unique in the scope of his thinking, Sennett expands previous notions of crafts and craftsmen and apprises us of the surprising extent to which we can learn about ourselves through the labor of making physical things.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780300151190
Feature: ISBN13: 9780300151190
ISBN: 0300151195
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2009-03-31
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
An Important Re-framing of an Old Idea -
Richard Sennett has been one of my most-preferred interpreters of physical and social culture since Flesh and Stone. He tackles issues that got trampled by misapplications of lit-crit and semiotic theory over the last few decades, and manages to get them back into the discussion. He has a rather dogged style: history, explication, and journalistic fairness are treated like responsibilities in language that is mostly quite dry, even bland. But what he lacks in vivacity, he more than covers with solid, methodical argumentation and a heartening tendency to broaden concepts and include the truly modern. In this volume, for example, Sennett adds Linux programming to the list of what we normally think of as craft, and I think he makes his case. Craft is a wicked thicket for us Moderns: we have not kept pace with its devaluation in an age of competitive production and disposable workers, and the quality of our handwork has suffered, but Sennett also convinces me that our comprehension of the world and the place of humans in it has suffered, because good craft is the meeting of mind and hand. What devalues handwork impoverishes the human mind. We lose our capacity for imagination.
I read this book very closely, pencil in hand, convinced that Sennett has contributed greatly to our understanding of what it means to be human in a machine age. I believe that his work has eclipsed Hannah Arendt's by now. Excellent.
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totally interesting -
What an amazing book. I thought this might be dry, since the book is about craftsmanship. Sennett deals with craftsmanship in so many different realms, not just in terms of building physical objects but also social organizations such as businesses and governments.
There is so much interesting information here that I will need to read this again just to get everything to soak in.
teh cratfsmen -
Lovely, heartfelt, smart, and -- though definitely scholarly -- quite accessible. The problem is that there are so many typos, I began to not even trust what I was reading. It's not the fault of the author -- his job is to think hard and write inspired. His copy editor at Yale University Press must have some sense of humor to leave in so many typos to contradict the subject matter of fine craft.
Poorly Crafted, But Still Worthwhile -
Oh, the irony! A book devoted to the subject of the craftsman is an exemplar of poor craftsmanship. Happily, this is true only of the apparent lack of proofreading--the content is indeed worth consideration. However, it *is* annoying to read a book that is studded with wrong words, missing words, and sentence fragments. The spell check is no substitute for careful review by a human being...and this was obviously lacking.
Now that that's out of the way--this is a thoughtful and indeed philosophical consideration of what goes into craftsmanship. The author's thinking is buttressed by numerous historical examples of the workshop, the industrial plant, and kinds of materials worked. He examines all this not only for purposes of definition--what is a craftsman--but also to encourage the reader's reflection upon the fate of craft in a society of mass production and consumption. The issue is not only the matter of quality in finished goods, but also of the kind of society that is inevitably shaped by the character of our lives' labors.
This is a book worth reading; just don't let the flagrant sloppiness of the (absent) editing get you down.
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A choppy read, with some insights -
With all the hype I heard about this book, I truly expected much more. This book was anything but a smooth read. The phrasings were awkward and jumpy. There were many typos. There is a typo in the second to last sentence for heaven's sake! Coming out of a hardcover book the first in a series of three, I thought surely the quality would be better.
Once you get past the distracting phraseology and grammatical errors, Sennett does propose and connect some interesting ideas about craft and how it relates to the practices of today. He uses specific historic examples to illustrate the divergence of ancient craft and medley of machine/computer technology available today.
The sources he uses are varied and quite intriguing. I do have to say I did enjoy how he wove ancient and modern philosophies of craft and why it is/is not important to society throughout history. If you can get past the typos and choppy language, it is a good read--you just have to sift through it's somewhat chaotic complexity to get to the gems.
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