Carroll L., 1871, Alice. De l’autre côté du miroir, trad. de l’anglais par E. Riot, Paris, Librio, 2017. Glendinning tells a story about the couple staying at a mutual friend's country house. The host told her that after everyone had gone to bed, peals of laughter were heard coming from their bedroom. Glendinning thinks that "for a couple who are apart an awful lot of the time, it works very well when they are together". Sennett, who has no children of his own, is by all accounts a devoted stepfather to Saskia's only son, Hilary, 25, a sculptor in New York.

Horton R., Wohl R., 1956, « Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction. Observation on Intimacy at a Distance », Psychiatry. Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 19, pp. 215-229.
Kaufmann L., 2013, « Les médiations de l’expérience. Retour sur l’œuvre de Dorothy Smith », EspacesTemps.net. Accès : https://www.espacestemps.net/articles/les-mediations-de-lexperience/. Mauss M., 1938, « Une catégorie de l’esprit humain : la notion de personne celle de “moi” », pp. 333-362, in : Mauss M., Sociologie et Anthropologie, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1970. C’est bien parce que le champ sémantique du concept de « réseau » est celui de la simple connexion (...) In his work in progress, Socialism: An Essay On Honour And Dishonour, he attempts to find a place for socialism after communism, "in particular to understand what notions of dependence and mutuality mean in the context of capitalism which is really focused on issues of individual competence". Even New Labour, which he broadly supports, "fosters this impossible image of a kind of New Labour superman". Sennett's hopes of becoming a professional cellist were dashed in 1962, when he developed a form of carpal tunnel syndrome. A disastrous hand operation made his condition worse. His performing career was over. But then the Harvard sociologist David Riesman invited him to Harvard to "figure out what you want to do". It was, Sennett says, a lot easier to get into Harvard in those days. He was then caught up "in all this political stuff, in the 60s". He also discovered that with the help of an electric typewriter he could write painlessly. "I can still recall the joy of being able to do something expressive that wasn't physically painful."Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for individuals to participate? The Hidden Injuries Of Class still makes fascinating reading, largely because of its sensitive and subtle exploration of working-class lives. It dissects the ways in which doctrines of equality may work against most people in the modern world; with inherited social distinctions now apparently erased, "social difference can now appear as a question of character, of moral resolve, will and competence". It is an argument which has as much resonance in the age of so-called depressed affluence as it had 30 years ago. Comme le montrent très bien les travaux de M. Berger (2015), seules des théories de l’espace public (...)

A truly remarkable book. Sennett dives into the depths of (Western) cultural and behavioural change during the last three centuries. This book has been published in the 1970ies, but has lost nothing of its applicability to modern times. The majority of a previously politically engaged public has slowly morphed into spectators, organised in groups of secularised believers, who cannot be argued with. A challenging book, mostly in the sense that it leads me to reframe a number of questions I've been asking (and thus many of the answers I've been proposing) lately. It might very well change the way I live my life. Les mouvements sociaux qui émergent d’en bas ne peuvent pas être « politiques » au sens noble du te (...)

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Durkheim É., 1914, « Le dualisme de la nature humaine et ses conditions sociales », Scientia, XV, pp. 206-221. Sennett and Cobb had set out to understand why an "increase in material power and freedom of choice should be accompanied by a crisis in self respect". Sennett says now that they were innocents. "Sociologists traditionally tended towards opinion surveys. We conducted the work rather as an anthropologist might have done. And we began with completely the wrong intuition, as I so often do in my work. I think it's going to be about politics and outer-world stuff, about economics. But it is often people talking out their subjectivity. In The Hidden Injuries Of Class, people are ashamed that they're not middle class, even though they have contempt for that class. Kaufmann L., 2016, « La “ligne brisée” : ontologie relationnelle, réalisme social et imagination morale », Revue du Mauss, 47, pp. 105-128. Cela étant, on pourrait quand même rappeler, avec bien d’autres commentateurs, que le modèle de R. (...)

In the course of this investigation, Sennett covers a lot of ground. He discusses street life in the 18th and 19th century, the evolution of audience behaviour in the theatre, fashion developments, the rise of the department store, Lamartine's oratory skills and Zola's intervention during the Dreyfus affair - to name just a few of a topics dealt with in the course of this book. The thing is ... Sennett probably wouldn't approve of what I just wrote. That is, the above paragraph is part of the problem he thinks he's diagnosed.

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