Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett’s books include The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone, and Respect. He was the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and now teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics.

Richard Sennett

Books by Richard Sennett

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1999
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1992
"Visionary, often brilliant." —Los Angeles Times
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1993
Authority
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1993
Palais-Royal
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1995
“Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett...
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1996
This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience.
Respect in a World of Inequality
Richard Sennett
Paperback, 2004
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Richard Sennett
E Book, 2011
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
Respect in a World of Inequality
Richard Sennett
E Book, 2011
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.
The Hidden Injuries of Class
Jonathan Cobb, Richard Sennett
Paperback, 1993
In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America—an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar...