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The Fall of Public Man Paperback – Import, January 1, 2003

by Richard Sennett (Author)
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"The Fall of Public Man" is a book in the great tradition of sociological scholarship. Sennett writes first of the tension between the public and private realms in which we live, arguing that different types of behavior and activity are appropriate in each. He argues that the barrier between these different realms has been eroded, and that this breakdown is so profound that public man has been left with no certain idea of his role in society. Sennett sees the development of the city as the single most important element of the social change he describes, and puts his argument in its historical perspective through an analysis of the changes in our built environment from the 18th century to the present day.
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    Penguin Books
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    January 1, 2003
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    5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0141007575
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    978-0141007571
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; New Ed edition (January 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141007575
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141007571
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Raindog
    5.0 out of 5 stars Moments of pure insight
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2018
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    This book formed a cornerstone for my research into urbanity. Sennett has an ability to inspire with moments of pure insight whilst writing about everyday social encounters in cities that few other authors manage to achieve.
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  • David J. Hildreth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015
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    READ THIS BOOK.
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  • Philip G. Gleason
    4.0 out of 5 stars Street life
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2019
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    Great review of how life on the city streets have changed.
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  • Serpil Tunçer
    5.0 out of 5 stars An intellectual Celebration Ranging from History toSociology
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2000
    Sennett scrutinizes those problems caused by the inbalance between personal and public life.According to Sennett, the 'public life' which is a significant piece of life besides the family and friendships was once so lively and meant much to individuals.There used to be a 'publicity' that contributed to the individuals' skills of 'play'through emotinal ties with strangers and to the civilization of the individual.Being a 'public man' well expressed in the 18th century European cities has become a gradually weakened phenomenon being replaced with the 'private life'.And has become as significant as the private life allows it to...Sennett asks,"How has the stranger been transformed into a threatening factor? How is it that today, keeping silent and remaining as the audience is the only way of joining the public life? In turn, how do these factors foster personality deficiencies? Solitude that is a result of modernism renders the individual a person captured by the private life.Sennett explains this process through works of Balzac and Diderot, theater, music, architecture,Dreyfus case and Richard Nixon. Richard Sennett is by no means hopeless; he is exploring the possibilites of getting to know 'the other' instead of imagining a 'lost public paradise'.
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  • Walter Cuje
    1.0 out of 5 stars Pseudo-academic gobbledy gook
    Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2020
    This book is another academic exercise in saying things that sound meaningful, using sentences that are immune from interpretation, because their meaning is unclear, but sound "deep." Here is a sample: "The theory of expression is incompatible with the idea of individual personality as expressive. If the sheer recital of what I've seen, felt, experienced, without any filtering or shaping or falsifying of my experience to fit to a standard, if this were expressive, then 'pity' in my life can hardly be expressive in the same way to you as your own sense of pity, derived from different experience." Blah, blah, blah... The sum of the parts is zero. 400 plus pages that MIGHT have been a good 10-page magazine article, if the author could get to a clear point - though it's not clear if he even has one. He apparently was a student or peer of David Riesman, an equally lousy writer.
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  • Jorge Martins Rosa
    5.0 out of 5 stars The end of the public realm
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2000
    Beyond Habermas' description of the changes that have taken place in the Western public sphere, with a better emphasis on empirical and historical data, the book gives a detailed account on the rise and fall of our interacting abilities. From the marketplace to the theater, the 19th century (and then the 20th) saw the decline of «play», along with its replacement by vicarious figures, like the «genius», the performing arts «vedettes» and now the politician as someone who feels (and does) what we are not anymore able to feel. Instead of hysteria, the civilizational disease is now narcissism, the unableness to act regardless of one's inner feelings. To be read along with Sennett's other masterpiece, a romance entitled «Palais-Royal».
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  • Darko Lukic
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016
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    Like it because it's very wide presentation of topic
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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2017
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Seems Elaboratly Interesting
    Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2017
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    Bought it after reading about it in Time Magazine. But never got to the point of reading it.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Soziale Verhältnisse
    Reviewed in Germany on May 8, 2018
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    Ich habe viel besser verstanden das was ich schon wüsste. Sehr empfelungswert in der Zeit von à la facebook etc Selbstdenunziations- und faschistoide Beobachtungsmechanismen.
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