Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
Sep 28, 2017
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
ISBN-10
1910749702
ISBN-13
9781910749708
Description
Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, where state-imposed outsiderdom was translated into a rich community identity; and nineteenth-century Paris, a magnet for political exiles, where the experience of displacement seeped into the city's culture at large.
Genres
History