Richard Sennet (...) is also a
successful public intellectual, one of that special breed of writers and thinkers who cover a range of
so-called specialisms but are called upon to tell us as a society who we are and how we got here.
Chiefly known for his elegant and scholarly writing, Sennett has
produced a dozen books, including three novels, since the late 60s,
mostly on aspects of the urban experience and the interconnection
between authority, modernism and public life. His knowledge spans the
disciplines of architecture, design, music, art, literature, history,
and political and economic theory, but he adds to all that a rare
anthropological hunger for the details of human experience. One of his
apparent paradoxes is that while he so fiercely argues for a more
disciplined form of public life over any therapeutic-style navel-gazing,
he possesses a rare genius for getting into other people's heads and
hearts."
The Guardian
Richard Sennet's homepage
http://www.richardsennett.com/site/SENN/Templates/Home.aspx?pageid=1
