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“We look at creative work as though the very creative process itself is something good. These are tools of expression, and like any tool, you can use them to damage something or to make something. They can be turned to very malign purposes, for instance, in the operas of Wagner. So I wanted to do this set of books, I want to show what is kind of the basic DNA that people use for good or for ill. What are the tools they use, if you like, of expression that they use in the creative process?”
Richard Sennettgrew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, attended the Juilliard School in New York, and then studied social relations at Harvard. Over the last five decades, h ...
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Richard Sennett, social life, cities, labor, social history, urban issues, UN Committee on Urban Initiatives, sociology, performance, art, politics, craftsmanship, rituals, theater, Trump, climate change, urban design, classical music, public protest