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Chargement... Les Tyrannies de l'intimitépar Richard Sennett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Scritto nel 1976, è un testo sociologico fondamentale per comprendere l'inversione valoriale tra esterno e interno, tra pubblico e privato, avvenuta nella società tra XVIII e XIX secolo. L'uomo "intimista" del XX secolo (per inciso: l'ultima parte del libro risulta forse la più debole, forse perché un po' datata rispetto agli stessi scritti successivi di Sennett - non a caso in un passo si anticipa "l'uomo flessibile") non è che il logico prodotto di questo ripiegamento verso l'interno di tutti i valori sociali, sia quelli incarnati dall'uomo stesso, sia quelli visibili nello spazio (la città) e nelle sovrastrutture economiche e produttive. ( ) Note: I only read one-third of this title. The author analyzes the multiple factors determining how humans function in public and private (i.e., family) environments. He uses as his laboratory Paris and London from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century, as both cities exploded in population. How individuals dealt with all these new strangers created the impetus to develop communication skills (verbal, dress, clothing) appropriate to either public or private experiences. Private, in Sennett's usage, denotes a natural law (which evolved into a human right). It is certainly a worthwhile topic--in this age of privatization--but Sennett's writing style is so dense and impenetrable that frequently one will need to read the same sentence over three of four times to coax the meaning out. It's a style that flourishes in theoretical sociology (i.e., Adorno and Habermas), but since I am no longer a graduate student, I gave it a good college try and then said "Enough." aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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