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Romantic readers [electronic resource] : the evidence of marginalia / H.J. Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 366 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780300129496 (electronic bk.)
  • 0300129491 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780300107852 (alk. paper)
  • 0300107854 (alk. paper)
  • 1281730300
  • 9781281730305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Romantic readers.DDC classification:
  • 028/.9/094109034 22
LOC classification:
  • Z1003.5.G7 J33 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Mundane marginalia -- Socializing with books -- Custodians to posterity -- The reading mind.
Summary: The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett here surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life - how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls "the spectre of uselessness' haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving. In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an "iron cage". Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has instead created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short-term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self-hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of 'reform'.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 028(410) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-352) and index.

Mundane marginalia -- Socializing with books -- Custodians to posterity -- The reading mind.

The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett here surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life - how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls "the spectre of uselessness' haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving. In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an "iron cage". Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has instead created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short-term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self-hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of 'reform'.

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