Quotes from Richard Sennett

ISBN 978-0-300-11633-5

Tests that measure a person's capacity to manage many problems at the expense of depth suit an economic regime that prizes quick study, superficial knowledge, all too often embodied by consultants who dart in and out of organizations. The craftsman's ability to dig deep stands at the pole opposite from potential ability deployed in this fashion.

The threat of being overwhelmed by difficult social interactions is dealt with by fixing a self-image in advance, by making oneself a fixed object rather than an open person liable to be touched by a social situation.

Diderot's solution to the limits of language was to become himself a worker: "There are machines so hard to describe and skills so elusive that ... it has often been necessary to get hold of such machines, set them in operation, and lend one's hand to the work.

Günümüzde de res publica'ya kat?l?m art?k bir oluruna b?rakma sorunudur ve bu kamusal yaÅŸam?n ÅŸehir gibi mekanlar? da bir bozulma sürecine girmiÅŸtir.

Thus narcissism is an obsession with "what this person, that event means to me." This question about the personal relevance of other people and outside acts is posed so repetitively that a clear perception of those persons and events in themselves is obscured. This absorption in self, oddly enough, prevents gratification of self needs; it makes the person at the moment of attaining an end or connecting with another person feel that "this isn't what I wanted.

Güçlü bir kamu yaÅŸam?n?n a??nmas?, içtenlikle ilgi duyulan mahrem iliÅŸkileri deforme etmektedir.

Nineteenth-century nationalism established what we might call the modern ground-rule for having an identity. You have the strongest identity when you aren't aware you 'have' it; you just are it. That is, you are most yourself when you are least aware of it

Hangi kötülüÄŸe tahammül edeceÄŸimiz hangi iyiliÄŸin peÅŸinde olduÄŸumuza baÄŸl?d?r.

The rise of the bourgeoisie" is a hackneyed phrase, so much so that one historian has been moved to comment that the only historical constant is that the middle classes are always everywhere rising.

Özellikle yeni bir ÅŸirket sat??a ç?kt???nda, kar??l?kl? baÄŸl?l?k korkunç zarar görür. Firma kurulduÄŸunda, herkesten fazla mesai ve s?k? çal??ma talep edilmiÅŸtir; ancak firma halka aç?ld???nda -yani hisseler ilk kez halka arz edildiÄŸinde- kurucular ÅŸirketi yüklü bir para kar??l??? satar ve alt kademe çal??anlar? ortada b?rak?r.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insan?n karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸmesini engelleyen ç?lg?n zaman deneyimi aras?nda bir çat??ma yaratt?.

I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.

Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararl? hale gelmeye baÅŸlar. Çünkü insanoÄŸlu kendi çabas? üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çal??ma zaman? üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insan?n zihnen öldüÄŸü anlam?na gelir.

Although in a lab the neophyte can be readily inducted in procedures, it's harder for a scientist to pass on the capacity to look suspiciously for new problems in the course of solving old ones or to explain the intuition formed from experience that a problem is likely to wind up a dead-end.

Kurumlarda iÅŸleyen veya bireyin yaÅŸad??? zaman, eskinin demir kafesinden kurtulmuÅŸ olsa da, yukar?dan aÅŸa??ya iÅŸleyen yeni bir denetime ve gözetime tabidir. EsnekliÄŸin zaman? yeni bir iktidar?n zaman?d?r. Esneklik düzensizlik yarat?r, ancak s?n?rlamalardan kurtulmam?z? saÄŸlamaz.

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