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Les tyrannies de l'intimité Etre "authentique" est aujourd'hui devenu un maître-mot, un élément de langage, qui renvoie non pas tant à son sens premier de "fidèle à ses origines", mais à celui, dérivé, de sans apprêt, sans fard, d'une transparence à soi-même et, par conséquent, exigée par les autres. Ce glissement sémantique est le symptôme d'un dévoiement qui brouille les frontières entre ce qui relève de la chose publique et de l'espace intime. La quête d'une transparence totale, intégrale, envahit, contamine et tyrannise notre espace public et démocratique. Remontant au XVIIe siècle, Richard Sennett montre comment et pourquoi nous avons perdu de vue peu à peu ce qu'il appelle l'"homme public" : à refuser comme inauthentique l'épaisseur du tissu social, on se livre sans défense à la pire des oppressions.
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Histoire sociale, Mœurs et coutumes, Aliénation (Psychologie sociale), Communes (Contre-culture), Interaction sociale, Community life, Manners and customs, Alienation (Social psychology), Social history, Social interaction, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Openbaar leven, Urban Sociology, Social participation, Sociale interactie, Sociology, urban, Sociology, Private life, Public life, Childhood and youth, American Poets, BiographyShowing 6 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author. A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett’s insights into the danger of the cult of individualism remain thoroughly relevant to our world today. In a new epilogue, he extends his analysis to the new “public” realm of social media, questioning how public culture has fared since the digital revolution.
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