Flesh and Stone The Body and the City in Western Civilization

Name: Flesh and Stone The Body and the City in Western Civilization
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ISBN: 9780393313918

ISBN-10: 0393313913

ISBN-13: 9780393313918

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard Sennett

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Flesh and Stone is a history of the city told through people's bodily experience - how men and women moved, what they saw and heard, what they smelled, how they ate and dressed, when they bathed, and how they made love.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

ï¿½mile Durkheim(18581917) founded the French school of sociology. His most famous works include The Division of Labor in Societyand The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Robin Busss most recent translations for Penguin include Dumass The Black Tulip. Richard Sennettis the Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT and a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Body and City



The Passive Body



The Plan of the Book



A Personal Note



Nakedness: The Citizen's Body in Perikles' Athens



The Citizen's Body



The Citizen's Voice



The Cloak of Darkness: The Protections of Ritual in Athens



The Powers of Cold Bodies



The Suffering Body



The Obsessive Image: Place and Time in Hadrian's Rome



Look and Believe



Look and Obey



The Impossible Obsession



Time in the Body: Early Christians in Rome



The Alien Body of Christ



Christian Places



Nietzsche's Hawks and Lambs



Community: The Paris of Jehan de Chelles



"Stadt Luft macht frei"



The Compassionate Body



The Christian Community



"Each Man Is a Devil to Himself": The Paris of Humbert de Romans



Economic Space



Economic Time



The Death of Icarus



Fear of Touching: The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice



Venice as a Magnet



The Walls of the Ghetto



A Shield But Not a Sword



The Miraculous Lightness of Freedom



Moving Bodies: Harvey's Revolution



Circulation and Respiration



The Mobile Individual



The Crowd Moves



The Body Set Free: Boullee's Paris



Freedom in Body and Space



Dead Space



Festival Bodies



Urban Individualism: E. M. Forster's London



The New Rome



Modern Arteries and Veins



Comfort



The Virtue of Displacement


Civic Bodies: Multi-Cultural New York



Difference and Indifference



Civic Bodies


Notes


Works Cited


Index