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In this pair of essays Sennett explores displacement through two vibrant historical moments: mid nineteenth-century Paris, with its community of political exiles, and the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, where state-imposed restrictions on outsider groups had surprising cultural consequences.
Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett is one of the world's most highly distintguished urban thinkers and planners. His previous books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as the recent Homo Faber trilogy, The Craftsman, Together, Building and Dwellings. For decades he has advised urban programmes for the United Nations. He has been awarded the Hegel and Spinoza prizes, as well as an honorary doctorate by Cambridge University.
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