About the Author
Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at New York University and at The London School of Economics. Before becoming a sociologist, he studied music professionally. He has received many awards and honors, most recently the 2006 Hegel Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and social sciences. His previous books include The Corrosion of Character:The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, The Fall of Public Man, Respect in a World of Inequality, and The Culture of New Capitalism, the last published by Yale University Press. He lives in New York and London.
Editorial Reviews
From The New Yorker
Sennett considers an array of artisans across different periods, from ancient Chinese chefs to contemporary mobile-phone designers, in this powerful meditation on the "skill of making things well." The template of craftsmanship, he finds, combines a "material consciousness" with a willingness to put in years of practice (a common estimate of the time required to master a craft is ten thousand hours) and a strategic acceptance of ambiguity, rather than an obsessive perfectionism. Sennett’s aim is to make us rethink the notion that society benefits most from a workforce trained to respond to the metamorphoses of a global economy. Ultimately, he writes, the difficulties and possibilities of craft can teach "techniques of experience" that help us relate to others, and lead to an "ethically satisfying" pride in one’s work.
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"As Richard Sennett makes clear in this lucid and compelling book, craftsmanship once connected people to their work by conferring pride and meaning. The loss of craftsmanship-and of a society that values it-has impoverished us in ways we have long forgotten but Sennett helps us understand."-Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and author of Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Robert B. Reich )
Product Description
Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, says the author, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. In this thought-provoking book, one of our most distinguished public intellectuals 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.
当今的匠人指的是什么,已经不只是单纯的手工艺者或是没有思想的机械者,当今的匠人指的是已经把专注、技能、思考等一系列相关能力带进他们的领域,当今的匠人出现在各个行业,如程序员、建筑工程师、音乐家。 作者理查德•桑内特,当代著名社会学家和思想家,本系列物质文...
评分当人们在设定希腊诸神时,将潘多拉与赫菲斯托斯作为“匠人”的代表,前者美丽却邪恶危险,后者丑陋却善良勤劳,从某种意义上体现了西方文化对于匠人身份的认同矛盾。正如理查德•桑内特概括的那样:“无法将双手和大脑联系起来,无法承认和鼓励人们内心有从事匠艺活动的欲望...
评分如今,在媒体和社会的大肆渲染下,“匠人精神”俨然已成为时兴的热词。可仔细想想,我们之所以提“匠人精神”,是出于对高质量产品的崇拜,而我们对匠人本身又有多少关注呢?在本书中,我们看到的不再是对“匠人精神”浅薄地讴歌,而是对匠人群体与他们的匠艺工作的分析与思考...
评分三天空闲时间全给了《匠人》,不因为难读,是太有趣。如果给这书加个副标题,正经一点可以叫“有关匠人的各种正传野史趣闻轶事”,文艺范儿可以叫“从今天起,关心服装、电路板和烤鱼”,亲近年轻人可以叫“人人都是半兽人”,取悦妇人可以叫“育儿乃匠艺之母”,从叙述手...
评分三天空闲时间全给了《匠人》,不因为难读,是太有趣。如果给这书加个副标题,正经一点可以叫“有关匠人的各种正传野史趣闻轶事”,文艺范儿可以叫“从今天起,关心服装、电路板和烤鱼”,亲近年轻人可以叫“人人都是半兽人”,取悦妇人可以叫“育儿乃匠艺之母”,从叙述手...
文章写完,这书读了一半。“匠人的自觉”
评分Just thought-provoking and vision-expanding. A great heuristic!Three types of material consciousness; an argument against Arendt's negative/simplified notion of labor in her political theory; a loosely historical and sociological work situated in pragmatism with a contributing concept of "the craft of experience" within this school of thoughts.
评分汉娜阿伦特的学生,开篇对汉娜阿伦特的“平庸之恶”作出很犀利的批判——指出这可能是个精英要向工匠学习的年代。包含许多实用主义化的tim ingold的概念,如resistance&ambiguity一章便对应了ingold的being alive的第一章。论述例子多为建筑相关。
评分文章写完,这书读了一半。“匠人的自觉”
评分不是做material culture的人,读完一个头两个大,虽然读懂了,但真是好费时间。。。。
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