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Flesh and stone : the body and the city in Western civilization / Richard Sennett
Bib ID 430122
Format BookBook
Author
Sennett, Richard, 1943-
 
Edition 1st ed. 
Description New York : W.W. Norton, c1994 
431 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0393036847  0393313913 
Full contents
  • Introduction: Body and City. 1. The Passive Body. 2. The Plan of the Book. 3. A Personal Note
  • Ch. 1. Nakedness: The Citizen's Body in Perikles' Athens. 1. The Citizen's Body. 2. The Citizen's Voice
  • Ch. 2. The Cloak of Darkness: The Protections of Ritual in Athens. 1. The Powers of Cold Bodies. 2. The Suffering Body
  • Ch. 3. The Obsessive Image: Place and Time in Hadrian's Rome. 1. Look and Believe. 2. Look and Obey. 3. The Impossible Obsession
  • Ch. 4. Time in the Body: Early Christians in Rome. 1. The Alien Body of Christ. 2. Christian Places. 3. Nietzsche's Hawks and Lambs
  • Ch. 5. Community: The Paris of Jehan de Chelles. 1. "Stadt Luft macht frei" 2. The Compassionate Body. 3. The Christian Community
  • Ch. 6. "Each Man Is a Devil to Himself": The Paris of Humbert de Romans. 1. Economic Space. 2. Economic Time. 3. The Death of Icarus
  • Ch. 7. Fear of Touching: The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice. 1. Venice as a Magnet. 2. The Walls of the Ghetto. 3. A Shield But Not a Sword. 4. The Miraculous Lightness of Freedom
  • Ch. 8. Moving Bodies: Harvey's Revolution. 1. Circulation and Respiration. 2. The Mobile Individual. 3. The Crowd Moves
  • Ch. 9. The Body Set Free: Boullee's Paris. 1. Freedom in Body and Space. 2. Dead Space. 3. Festival Bodies
 
Notes

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-413) and index.

Subjects Cities and towns - History.  |  Human body - Social aspects.  |  Civilization, Western.

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