Respect in a World of Inequality | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 409026
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0393325377
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780393325379
Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
As various forms of social welfare were dismantled through the last decade of the 20th century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was best served by a focus on potential, not need. Richard Sennett disagrees. In this fusion of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses the need and social responsibility across the gulf of inequality. In the uncertain world of "flexible" social relationships, all are troubled by issues of respect: whether it is an employee stuck with insensitive management, a social worker trying to aid a resentful client, or a virtuoso artist and an accompanist aiming for a perfect duet.
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 A Very Distinct Piece of Scholarship February 11, 2006
M. Salahuddin (NY)
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
When a "customer" of this book (not a "reader", for sure) can make a comment and leave it on Amazon labeled as the so-called "review", I think that a unique example of 'free speech'! It seems we have the right to say almost anything about a book we may not be educated enough to read or understand it.
Misguided view of respect March 3, 2008
Charles E. Breiling (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
To put it bluntly, this entire book can be refuted in one three word sentence: "Respect is EARNED."
Sennett seems to think that the world would be a better place if we simply had mutual respect for one another. And he's right. Unfortunately we can't "make" people have respect for anything or anyone, so what you end up with is a one-sided agreement.
It's a bit like waging peace with only one army laying down its weapons. Anyone with a whit of common sense knows what happens next.
I did enjoy his tales of growing up, even if it seems he took all the wrong lessons from those moments in his life when he could have gotten a little more of a realistic view of how the world works, and where REAL respect comes from: it is earned. Wishing for respect doesn't produce it, you have to do the thankless labor of earning it on your own.
 Please, Stop Putting Me To Sleep! December 5, 2005
H. Seymour (Hood River, OR United States)
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had to read this book for a diversity class. Sennett uses language and sentence construction that is overly ostentatious and difficult to understand. Inside this fat book is a very thin book trying to get out. He needed a good editor.
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