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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Richard Sennett

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Richard Sennett

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett

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Born: January 1, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Richard Sennett 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.

Known for:

The Craftsman (2008)
The Culture of the New Capitalism (2006)
The Fall of Public Man (1977)
The hidden injuries of class (1972)

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