This text examines the forces that erode respect in modern society. Respect can be gained by attaining success, through financial independence and by helping others. But, it argues, many who are not able to achieve the demands of contemporary meritocracy...
Here, Sennett writes of the tension between the public and private realms in which we live, arguing that different types of behaviour and activity are appropriate in each. He believes that the barrier between these realms has been eroded, leaving man with...