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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.
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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充滿瞭男性masculinity的味道,後半部分比前半部分堪讀,想到當年工作時那種cubicle drone的感覺似曾相識,quit the job也算明智之舉。
評分我覺得這本書是相當好看的,歐洲的名字是‘為什麼辦公室工作對我們是不好的,而修理東西和動手弄東西是好的’。這本書直接扣問現在人們在service economy下作為knowledge worker的生存狀態,以及扣問我們現在的教育製度that value knowledge work。我們與我們使用的物體被alienation是不對的。讀起來,可以看到作者深入淺齣,引用瞭很多社會學等大傢的觀點和文字,但是用很簡單的語言錶達齣來(這纔對嘛!簡單瞭,很多人讀瞭,知識和觀點傳播瞭,纔有意義嘛)。
評分Crawford 在這本書中對 knowledge worker 工作實質的分析讀來真的心有戚戚焉。不過按照他的分析,這類工作”弱智化“(dumbing down)恐怕是當代企業甚或是社會的係統問題,幾乎無法避免。Crawford 本人逍遙遁入摩托車維修行,根本不關心還在乾糟心工作的白領”我該怎麼辦“的問題。拋開試圖解決問題的心態,讀本書中 Crawford 的批判和分析隻覺得酣暢。但如果還是想要入世,還是多看看 Cal Newport 比較好╮(╯▽╰)╭
評分Crawford 在這本書中對 knowledge worker 工作實質的分析讀來真的心有戚戚焉。不過按照他的分析,這類工作”弱智化“(dumbing down)恐怕是當代企業甚或是社會的係統問題,幾乎無法避免。Crawford 本人逍遙遁入摩托車維修行,根本不關心還在乾糟心工作的白領”我該怎麼辦“的問題。拋開試圖解決問題的心態,讀本書中 Crawford 的批判和分析隻覺得酣暢。但如果還是想要入世,還是多看看 Cal Newport 比較好╮(╯▽╰)╭
評分感覺是對建立在實物和個人之間的institution的批判,最後還要建設性地暢想一下自由人社會的樣子~有些思考很好,但是他的個人經曆太難relate,又喜歡把簡單的問題化為長篇論述加上哲學詞語,不是很好讀。
摩托車修理技術與崇尚管理的社會 文:彭礪青 作者:馬修.柯勞佛 出版:大塊文化 出版日期:2010年6月 定價:港幣93元 我們身處於數碼化的年代,這是一個崇尚管理、數據分析的社會,這是管理人駕馭技工、數碼科技凌駕手工藝的社會。自海德格與漢娜.阿倫特以降,許多哲學...
評分摩托車修理技術與崇尚管理的社會 文:彭礪青 作者:馬修.柯勞佛 出版:大塊文化 出版日期:2010年6月 定價:港幣93元 我們身處於數碼化的年代,這是一個崇尚管理、數據分析的社會,這是管理人駕馭技工、數碼科技凌駕手工藝的社會。自海德格與漢娜.阿倫特以降,許多哲學...
評分拿到这本小书,首先映入眼帘的是书皮上一辆红色的宝马摩托,背景是一间简陋的工作间。 醒目的白色标题告诉人们这并不是一本摩托车修理手册,而是对人生的又一次哲思。 当时所以选了这册名字怪怪的小书,多半是被作者的背景所吸引。一个名校芝大毕业的政治学博士,依然放弃...
評分看完本书,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。
評分拿到这本小书,首先映入眼帘的是书皮上一辆红色的宝马摩托,背景是一间简陋的工作间。 醒目的白色标题告诉人们这并不是一本摩托车修理手册,而是对人生的又一次哲思。 当时所以选了这册名字怪怪的小书,多半是被作者的背景所吸引。一个名校芝大毕业的政治学博士,依然放弃...
Shop Class as Soulcraft pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024