- Moral and ethical aspects, Sociology, Work, Vakbekwaamheid
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job.
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- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Sennett
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Meulenhoff Boekerij B.V., Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Dutch, Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780300151190
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“"Just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the days in 1962 when the world was on the brink of atomic war, I ran into my teacher Hannah Arendt on the street."”
Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart, and in 2008 was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the
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