by Richard Sennett · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483074237
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The Fall of Public Man is an essay by Richard Sennett that explores the crisis of the public man in contemporary society. Sennett analyzes how the lack of balance between public and private life affects people, examining the causes and consequences of this situation. The author argues that our lives are deprived of the pleasures and support of citizen exchange, and how the stranger is perceived as a threat, leaving silence and observation as the only ways to experience public life.
Richard Sennett is an American sociologist who is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world.
