Together – the Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation

No recommendation from me…just saw a book review interview in New Internationalist with Sennett and, again, recalled what he said when you wrote; “It doesn’t always work, it’s time-consuming and frustrating…”

Here is Sennett:
excerpt:

“Co-operation is a skill, its a craft, which I often compare with that of musicians. It isn’t so different. Whether you’re rehearsing a piece of music of doing a project in business — if you don’t listen attentively to other people, you mess up.”
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and about the points he is trying to make in his book:

“The second big point is about cooperation rather than solidarity. In my view, modern society is too diverse; it’s too complicated. Solidarity is not a very good model. We need to find ways of holding people together who are very different, who don’t understand each other, don’t know each other, and maybe don’t even like each other. So that’s where the skill part of this book comes in — dealing with people you don’t know or don’t understand requires more skill than dealing with somebody who is just like you. “”