Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’

The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than Oxbridge college and why it helps him to imagine his readers as female biologists

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February 15, 2024
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February 15, 2024
Matthew Reisz
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#1 Submitted by kbrown on February 15, 2024 - 3:29pm
Kenneth Brown (ret. U. Manchester) re. article on R. Sennett. I'm 'elderly' (87), pretty immobile, living in Marseille since 2017, in the Noailles neighbourhood, in city centre among mostly immigrants from North Africa. As I wheedle along with walker or in wheelchair, I get a "good morning uncle" or "best of health god willing grandpa" and offers of help from most every shopkeeper. A kind of cosmopolitanism/Islamic culture, of urbanity is in the air.

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