Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and motorcycle mechanic. After receiving a degree in physics from U.C. Santa Barbara, he worked as an electrician. He then received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on the Committee on Social Thought, also at the University of Chicago. Crawford is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia.
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Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite ordinary, but now seems to be receding over the cultural horizon—the experience of making and fixing things. Working with your hands, as Mathew B. Crawford describes it, connects us to the world around us. Those of us who sit in an office often have intuitions of something gone amiss, a sense of unreality accompanied by feelings of impotence. What, after all, do we do all day? In this wholly original debut, Crawford offers a brief for self-reliance and a sustained reflection on this problem: how to live concretely in an ever more abstract world. Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing for anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents. On both economic and psychological grounds, Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker.” This imperative, he explains, is based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Crawford shows in precise detail how such a partition, which began a century ago with the assembly line, degrades work for those on both sides of the divide.
But he offers good news as well: The manual trades are very different from factory work. They require a lot of thinking and may even give rise to moments of genuine pleasure. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges— the soulcraft—of manual work. The work of builders and mechanics cannot be outsourced. They tie us to the local communities in which we live and instill the pride that comes from doing work that is genuinely useful.
Speaking squarely to a culture that continues to grapple for a way to reconcile work and life and to find fulfilling work of all stripes, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers inspired social criticism and deep personal exploration. It will change your understanding of the value of work and the work of bringing value and meaning to your life, whatever you do now or hope to do one day.
2014年5月,我去到一家新的创业公司工作,负责文案撰写,此前我在一家门户网站做网络编辑。那份工作我做了两年多,到最后感觉整个人都枯竭了,好像所有的灵感、创造力都被掏空了,自己成了空心人。每次坐在办公桌前,等着下班的终点快点到来,等到发工资的时候,我为自己拿到的...
评分看完本书,没有激情澎湃。说实话有很多不明白的地方,不知道是自己跟不上书本节奏还是太高深了。不过就一个道理是真的:追寻自己想要的生活。不过其他的什么理论,辩证就着实看不懂了。或许是自己思想太浅了,是在没法明白这本书。
评分看完本书,没有激情澎湃。说实话有很多不明白的地方,不知道是自己跟不上书本节奏还是太高深了。不过就一个道理是真的:追寻自己想要的生活。不过其他的什么理论,辩证就着实看不懂了。或许是自己思想太浅了,是在没法明白这本书。
评分看完本书,没有激情澎湃。说实话有很多不明白的地方,不知道是自己跟不上书本节奏还是太高深了。不过就一个道理是真的:追寻自己想要的生活。不过其他的什么理论,辩证就着实看不懂了。或许是自己思想太浅了,是在没法明白这本书。
评分还行是我给的,国外评论应该是相当好的。作者毕业于芝加哥大学政治哲学专业,毕业后进入华盛顿智囊团,在工作期间,他时常感到迷茫,看不出自己工作的意义,于是在工作5个月后,他离开,转而去修摩托车。这段从哲学缺位到哲学实践的过程,就构成了这本新书。 以下粗译,不当之...
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评分究竟有多少喜欢修摩托车的哲学家...书写风格太像在写哲学论文,语法复杂生僻词用得多,读起来有点累。亲手劳作带来的自我价值并不是什么新鲜主题。觉得有意思的一些论述:教育系统中劳动教育缺失的后果,蓝领工作如何帮助构建一个社会的道德体系
评分有点像Alain de Botton的那些书。不过这本的内容有点散乱。可能几篇长一点的blog已经能把道理都讲清楚了。
评分究竟有多少喜欢修摩托车的哲学家...书写风格太像在写哲学论文,语法复杂生僻词用得多,读起来有点累。亲手劳作带来的自我价值并不是什么新鲜主题。觉得有意思的一些论述:教育系统中劳动教育缺失的后果,蓝领工作如何帮助构建一个社会的道德体系
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