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09 March 2024

Sennett—The Craftsman (iii)


Richard Sennett
The Craftsman
(2008)




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CHAPTER 5

The Hand


Technique has a bad name; it can seem soulless. That's not how people whose hands become highly trained view technique. For them, technique will be intimately linked to expression. This chapter takes a first step in investigating the connection.

Two centuries ago Immanuel Kant casually remarked, "The hand is the window on to the mind." Modern science has sought to make good on this observation. ...