Uses of Disorder
The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order-and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults-both the fierce young idealists and their security-oriented parents-into rigid attitudes that originate in adolescence and stifle further personal growth. He explains how the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of beh…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-82608-4
- EAN: 9780307826084
- Produktnummer: 15725110
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 198 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'843 KB
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RICHARD SENNETT's books include The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone, and Respect. He was the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and now teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics.
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