Property News · February 25, 2018

On my radar: Richard Sennett’s cultural highlights


The American sociologist on climate-change art, Janáček’s quartets and having a black thumbBorn in Chicago in 1943, Richard Sennett has been called “one of the boldest social thinkers of his generation”. His work focuses on ethnography, urban design and social theory and he teaches at the LSE and New York University. His many books include The Fall of Public Man (1977), Flesh and Stone (1994) and The Corrosion of Character (1998) and he has written three novels. Sennett’s latest book, Building and Dwelling, has just been published by Allen Lane. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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