Telos and Technique

Abstract

American sociologist Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman is possibly the most influential work on craft and craftsmanship in recent decades. Sennett’s arguments, different from previous studies on craft, are constructed with a focus on people. He defends craftsmanship as present not only in the products of craft, but primarily in the way people perform their practice, envisioning an outcome marked by excellence; in his terms, a desire to ‘make things well’. [...]