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by Richard Sennett (Author)

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Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen all engage in a craftsman’s work. In this thought-provoking book, Sennett 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 skill—from 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.

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File Size: 2499 KB
Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (March 27, 2008)
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
ASIN: B001C359DM
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Marc Samida

A complex but very rewarding read about craftsmanship, pride ...

April 11, 2015

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A complex but very rewarding read about craftsmanship, pride in one's work and the differences between individual work and mechanical production, and the intellectual investment in the former versus the more mechanistic approach in the latter.
Sennet uses many examples from the world of music to illustrate his thesis and he finishes with an explanation of the philosophical underpinnings of his ideas, pragmatism in this case.
This book has an extensive index and bibliography and his examples are well-chosen and illustrative and evidence of his wide understanding of the matter. Not a book to read on the beach or a plane or even at home in a week or so. It requires time and patience and is rewarding even when dipping into individual sections but the real benefit comes with the final section brings together the threads and leaves the (this) reader with much more understanding of this field of human endeavour than one had before.

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alyson beaton

One of the most thought provoking and compelling books on ...

November 5, 2017

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One of the most thought provoking and compelling books on the life of a maker. Sennett crafted each page of this book, restoring the value of the craftsman and historical link to a modern society rooted in the past. A must read for anyone grappling with our role in a modern technological society and how to stay connected to a real physical world. I was searching for answers and meaning behind why I am a maker in an industrial age, this book has validated my human need to "craft" and given meaning to why my human instincts should be acted on. Understanding the importance of craft in our culture gives life a deeper richer meaning.

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Cristiano Burmester

The Craftsman - reflections on our society

October 10, 2017

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The book offers a good overview on the topic of craftsmaship, craft and the craftsman as a historical and social process.
In times of radical changes coming to place in all areas of work, in my case, it helped bring a reflection regarding our work choices, how we as society work and what we should be concerned with as changes come to all fields.
The book is well written, full of historical examples and cases and it was well worth reading it. I do recommend !

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J. V. Lewis

An Important Re-framing of an Old Idea

June 9, 2010

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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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Donald Partner

A decent book about having a craft

September 30, 2017

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A very incisive look into multiple aspects of having a craft. This is a very thought provoking book and I would recommend others to read as well. However, I must state it isn't for the beginner to read. Some parts were hard to follow.

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Claudia Mendes Nogu

In a moment when we talk about " data scientists " is worth reading this book that shows the hands and brain working together

September 26, 2015

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This book is very beautiful and encourages the thinking about the work in now a days. In a moment when we talk about " data scientists " is worth reading this book that shows the hands and brain working together . This book should be read for anyone thinking about man and machine interaction in the work. It shows what is behind the spectacular results : a craftsman .

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The Makers of the Made World

October 19, 2014

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This is a primary source for the study of Material Culture, and a reminder that not long ago the means of production were dependent upon the skill and mindset of a person that had spent a disciplined life in pursuit of making things well.

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M. J. Janse Rensburg

Interesting and informative

April 19, 2015

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Sennett wrote a well-researched book that is also fairly easy to read. It does allow the reader to ponder some fundamental questions.

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