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Poursuivant son analyse des métamorphoses du capitalisme, Richard Sennett se penche, dans ce nouvel essai, sur l'évolution des institutions, des compétences et des formes de consommation par rapport aux aspirations libertaires des années soixante. À l'éclatement des bureaucraties et des contraintes répond désormais la fragmentation de la vie sociale et des êtres humains. Et à la dissociation du pouvoir et de l'autorité, sur un plan politique, correspond, sur un plan économique, la fracture entre la réussite personnelle et le progrès social. En d'autres termes, nous assistons à une véritable dérive non progressiste de la culture néo-capitaliste. Pour autant, Richard Sennett refuse de se réfugier dans la nostalgie et éclaire les trois défis qui s'imposent à l'individu à l'ère de la fragmentation : être capable de se définir à travers de constantes mutations professionnelles et en l'absence d'institutions susceptibles de donner un sens à la vie ; rester à la hauteur dans une société où le talent n'a plus sa place et où les compétences deviennent rapidement obsolètes ; se situer dans les rapports à entretenir avec le passé. Gageant que l'homme ne saurait se construire dans ces conditions, Sennett parie sur une révolte contre cette culture de la superficialité, où le consumérisme tient lieu de politique et les gadgets de mesures sociales.

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2006, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Bureaucratie
Le talent et le spectre de l'inutilité
Politique et consommation
Le capitalisme social aujourd'hui.

Edition Notes

"Ce livre est le fruit des Castle lectures in ethics, politics and economics, données par Richard Sennett à l'Université de Yale en 2004"--P. [7]

Trad. de : The culture of the new capitalism. 2006.

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Bibliothèque Albin Michel
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The Culture of the New Capitalism
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English

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HD 6955 S478c 2006 F

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Translator
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat

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Paperback
Pagination
1 vol. (157 p.)
Number of pages
157

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OL22243209M
ISBN 10
2226170979
ISBN 13
9782226170972
OCLC/WorldCat
84716449
Library Thing
748669
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
cb401269349
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2932160

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The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett 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 specter 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 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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