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The author here attempts to show how an excessively ordered community freezes adults - both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents - into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth.
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Richard Sennett is professor of social and cultural theory at the London School of Economics, and Bemis Professor of Social Science at MIT. Among his books is The Culture of the New Capitalism (2006), published by Yale.
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"'The issues Sennett raises are fundamental and profound. The book is utopian in the best sense - it tries to define a radically different future and to show that it could be constructed from the materials at hand.' New York Times Book Review 'We are prompted to think and dream and question old and tired cliches and some more recent ones, too, by an author whose mind is rich, wide-ranging, and, best of all, not afraid of life's ambiguities, not tempted to banish them all with ideological rhetoric' Robert Coles"
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0713902175
- ISBN 13 9780713902174
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages184
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Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
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ISBN 13: 9780713902174
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