TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,H.J.
TI  - Romantic readers: the evidence of marginalia 
SN  - 9780300129496 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Z1003.5.G7 J33 2005eb
U1  - 028/.9/094109034 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Marginalia
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Notes marginales
KW  - Édition
KW  - Romantisme
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - წიგნი და კითხვა--
KW  - გამომცემლები და გამოცემები--
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-352) and index; Mundane marginalia -- Socializing with books -- Custodians to posterity -- The reading mind
N2  - 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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