The Fall Of Public Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Remainder mark
What happens to a civilization when its people lose the art of public life? Richard Sennett's landmark work, The Fall of Public Man, chronicles the slow erosion of public culture in Western society, tracing its decline from the vibrant civic theatricality of the eighteenth century to the narcissistic self-absorption of the modern age. Drawing on a sweeping range of sources — from urban history and sociology to theatre, dress, and political theory — Sennett argues that the retreat from public engagement into the private realm has not liberated individuals, but rather impoverished both personal and collective life, leaving communities fragmented and politics hollow. Sennett writes with the authority of a social theorist who is equally at home in the archives of Enlightenment Paris and London as in the anxious streets of twentieth-century New York, weaving cultural history and philosophical critique into a seamlessly urgent narrative. His prose is precise yet richly evocative, presenting ideas about identity, intimacy, and civic responsibility that remain as provocative today as when first published. A foundational text in the study of modernity and public culture, The Fall of Public Man challenges readers to reckon with a fundamental question: if we have abandoned the public stage, what, exactly, have we become?
Author: Richard Sennett
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Society & culture
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Remainder mark
What happens to a civilization when its people lose the art of public life? Richard Sennett's landmark work, The Fall of Public Man, chronicles the slow erosion of public culture in Western society, tracing its decline from the vibrant civic theatricality of the eighteenth century to the narcissistic self-absorption of the modern age. Drawing on a sweeping range of sources — from urban history and sociology to theatre, dress, and political theory — Sennett argues that the retreat from public engagement into the private realm has not liberated individuals, but rather impoverished both personal and collective life, leaving communities fragmented and politics hollow. Sennett writes with the authority of a social theorist who is equally at home in the archives of Enlightenment Paris and London as in the anxious streets of twentieth-century New York, weaving cultural history and philosophical critique into a seamlessly urgent narrative. His prose is precise yet richly evocative, presenting ideas about identity, intimacy, and civic responsibility that remain as provocative today as when first published. A foundational text in the study of modernity and public culture, The Fall of Public Man challenges readers to reckon with a fundamental question: if we have abandoned the public stage, what, exactly, have we become?