The Fall of Public Man by Sennett, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Part One: The Public Problem

Chapter 1: The Public Domain

Love Outside the Public Domain Dead Public Space The Changes in the Public Domain The Past in the Present

Chapter 2: Roles

Roles Public Roles Public Roles in Cities Proof or Plausibility?

Part Two: The Public World of the Ancien Régime

Chapter 3: The Audience: A Gathering of Strangers

Who Came to the City Where they Lived Changes in the Urban Bourgeoisie Interchanges at Court and in the City

Chapter 4: Public Roles

The Body is a Mannequin Speech is a Sign The Impersonal Realm is Passionate

Chapter 5: Public and Private

There are Limits on Public Expression Natural Expression is Outside the Public Realm Public and Private are like a Molecule of Society The Molecule Split

Chapter 6: Man as Actor

The Common-Sense View of Man as Actor Diderot’s Paradox of Acting Rousseau’s Indictment of the City as Theater Rousseau’s Prophecies

Part Three: The Turmoil of Public Life in the 19th Century

Chapter 7: The Impact of Industrial Capitalism on Public Life

Was the 19th Century Urban Dweller a New Personage? The Localizing of the City Chance and Bourgeois Life Public Commodities

Chapter 8: Personality in Public

Balzac’s Vision of Personality as a Social Principle Personality in Public: New Images of the Body The Stage Tells a Truth the Street No Longer Tells Personality and the Private Family Revolts Against the Past Summary

Chapter 9: The Public Men of the 19th Century

The Actor The Spectator

Chapter 10: Collective Personality

1848: Individual Personality Triumphs over Class Gemeinschaft The Dreyfus Affair: Destructive Gemeinschaft Who is a Real Radical?

Part Four: The Intimate Society

Chapter 11: The End of Public Culture Chapter 12: Charisma Becomes Uncivilized

The Theories of Charisma Charisma and Ressentiment Electronics Entrenches the Silence of the Past The Star System

Chapter 13: Community Becomes Uncivilized

Barricades Built Around a Community Barricades Built from Within The Humane Costs of Community

Chapter 14: The Actor Deprived of his Art

Play is the Energy for Public Expression Narcissism Enervates This Energy The Mobilization of Narcissism and the Appearance of a New Class Narcissism is the Protestant Ethic of Modern Times

Conclusion: The Tyrannies of Intimacy Notes Appendix: “J’Accuse!” Index Copyright Page