“Living with people who
differ--racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically--is the most urgent
challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with
people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the
tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett
discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.
Sennett contends that
cooperation is a craft, and the foundations for skillful cooperation lie in
learning to listen well and discuss rather than debate. In "Together"
he explores how people can cooperate online, on street corners, in schools, at
work, and in local politics. He traces the evolution of cooperative rituals
from medieval times to today, and in situations as diverse as slave communities,
socialist groups in Paris, and workers on Wall Street. Divided into three
parts, the book addresses the nature of cooperation, why it has become weak,
and how it could be strengthened. The author warns that we must learn the craft
of cooperation if we are to make our complex society prosper, yet he reassures
us that we can do this, for the capacity for cooperation is embedded in human
nature.
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