The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
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| Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman continues an argument begun in the 19th
| century, when writers such as John Ruskin and William Morris extolled the
| crafts remembered in our surnames (Smith, Cartwright, Thatcher, Mason,
| Fletcher) while lamenting the mind-numbing and soul-destroying labour of the
| industrial process which was replacing them. A long line of thinkers, from
| Hegel and Marx to Sennett’s teacher Hannah Arendt, have sympathised with the
| argument. But Sennett does not think that craftsmanship has vanished from our
| world. On the contrary: it has merely migrated to other regions of human
| enterprise, so that the delicate form of skilled cooperation that once
| produced a cathedral now produces the Linux software system. Linux, for
| Sennett, is the work of a community of craftsmen “who embody some of the
| elements first celebrated in the (Homeric) Hymn to Hephaestus”.
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