[Sci-tech-public] Richard Sennett TONIGHT on "The Craftsman"

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

Please come for the talk by Richard Sennett tonight at MIT. This is the
inaugural public event of the conference on Writing Cities, co-organized
by graduate students in MIT, Harvard and LSE, from Wednesday and
Thursday. For more information on the conference, see
http://urban.media.mit.edu 

Best, 


S.K.

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*The Craftsman*

Talk by 
RICHARD SENNETT
Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology, MIT Dept of Urban Studies and
Planning

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Room 10-485, 6:00-7:30pm

http://urban.media.mit.edu/pdf/sennett.pdf
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300119091

"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

"The Craftsman names a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well
for its own sake. Although the word may suggest a way of life that waned
with the advent of industrial society, Sennett argues that the
craftsman's realm is far broader than skilled manual labor; the computer
programmer, the doctor, the parent, and the citizen need to learn the
values of good craftsmanship today. "In his most ambitious book to date,
one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of
craftsmen past and present; he connects physical labor to ethical
values; he challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in
today's world." — from the book jacket

Hosted by MIT DUSP/Community Design and Development Forum


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