RICHARD SENNETT Centennial Professor of Sociology · London School of Economics · Fmr. Humanities Professor · NYU
Author of The Performer · The Fall of Public Man · The Culture of the New Capitalism · The Craftsman

We look at creative work as though the very creative process itself is something good. These are tools of expression, and like any tool, you can use them to damage something or to make something. They can be turned to very malign purposes, for instance, in the operas of Wagner. So I wanted to do this set of books, I want to show what is kind of the basic DNA that people use for good or for ill. What are the tools they use, if you like, of expression that they use in the creative process?

RICHARD SENNETT Centennial Professor of Sociology · London School of Economics · Fmr. Humanities Professor · NYU
Author of The Performer · The Fall of Public Man · The Culture of the New Capitalism · The Craftsman

We look at creative work as though the very creative process itself is something good. These are tools of expression, and like any tool, you can use them to damage something or to make something. They can be turned to very malign purposes, for instance, in the operas of Wagner. So I wanted to do this set of books, I want to show what is kind of the basic DNA that people use for good or for ill. What are the tools they use, if you like, of expression that they use in the creative process?