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Index
Title
Contents
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
Epilogue | What Happened to the Public Realm
Appendix: “J’Accuse!”
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Praise for The Fall of Public Man
Also by Richard Sennett
Copyright
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