Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience.Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life—how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love—all in the architecture of stone and space from ancient Athens to modern New York.Early in Flesh and Stone, Richard Sennett probes the ways in which the ancient Athenians experienced nakedness, and the relation of nakedness to the shape of the ancient city, its troubled politics, and the inequali…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34650-3
- EAN: 9780393346503
- Produktnummer: 34246961
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'530 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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