The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

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ISBN-10: 0393309096
ISBN-13: 9780393309096
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/01/1992
Dimensions: 8.57" L, 5.59" W, 0.55" H

The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

byRichard Sennett

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The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults–both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents–into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle classes that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. And he proposes a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, diversity, and creative disorder to bring into being adults who can openly respond to and deal with the challenges of life.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0393309096
ISBN-13: 9780393309096
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/01/1992
Dimensions: 8.57" L, 5.59" W, 0.55" H
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