Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and motorcycle mechanic. After receiving a degree in physics from U.C. Santa Barbara, he worked as an electrician. He then received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on the Committee on Social Thought, also at the University of Chicago. Crawford is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia.
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Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite ordinary, but now seems to be receding over the cultural horizon—the experience of making and fixing things. Working with your hands, as Mathew B. Crawford describes it, connects us to the world around us. Those of us who sit in an office often have intuitions of something gone amiss, a sense of unreality accompanied by feelings of impotence. What, after all, do we do all day? In this wholly original debut, Crawford offers a brief for self-reliance and a sustained reflection on this problem: how to live concretely in an ever more abstract world. Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing for anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents. On both economic and psychological grounds, Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker.” This imperative, he explains, is based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Crawford shows in precise detail how such a partition, which began a century ago with the assembly line, degrades work for those on both sides of the divide.
But he offers good news as well: The manual trades are very different from factory work. They require a lot of thinking and may even give rise to moments of genuine pleasure. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges— the soulcraft—of manual work. The work of builders and mechanics cannot be outsourced. They tie us to the local communities in which we live and instill the pride that comes from doing work that is genuinely useful.
Speaking squarely to a culture that continues to grapple for a way to reconcile work and life and to find fulfilling work of all stripes, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers inspired social criticism and deep personal exploration. It will change your understanding of the value of work and the work of bringing value and meaning to your life, whatever you do now or hope to do one day.
看这本书最大的收获,在我看来,是近距离观察作者是如何在行动和写作中与他所读到的哲学互动的。其实对于“哲学对生活有什么用”这个问题,并没有给出一个明确的回答;回答隐藏在他的行动背后,隐藏在他的文字背后。 因此,如果读者对于书中提到的各种哲学家(比如亚里士多德...
评分2014年5月,我去到一家新的创业公司工作,负责文案撰写,此前我在一家门户网站做网络编辑。那份工作我做了两年多,到最后感觉整个人都枯竭了,好像所有的灵感、创造力都被掏空了,自己成了空心人。每次坐在办公桌前,等着下班的终点快点到来,等到发工资的时候,我为自己拿到的...
评分 评分Reading this book, I read into J's mind. The value of handwork.
评分想辞职又不知道能做什么/这本书豆瓣评分这么低真是让人怀疑豆瓣读书的是不是都是手不沾阳春水的文青
评分究竟有多少喜欢修摩托车的哲学家...书写风格太像在写哲学论文,语法复杂生僻词用得多,读起来有点累。亲手劳作带来的自我价值并不是什么新鲜主题。觉得有意思的一些论述:教育系统中劳动教育缺失的后果,蓝领工作如何帮助构建一个社会的道德体系
评分Crawford 在这本书中对 knowledge worker 工作实质的分析读来真的心有戚戚焉。不过按照他的分析,这类工作”弱智化“(dumbing down)恐怕是当代企业甚或是社会的系统问题,几乎无法避免。Crawford 本人逍遥遁入摩托车维修行,根本不关心还在干糟心工作的白领”我该怎么办“的问题。抛开试图解决问题的心态,读本书中 Crawford 的批判和分析只觉得酣畅。但如果还是想要入世,还是多看看 Cal Newport 比较好╮(╯▽╰)╭
评分想辞职又不知道能做什么/这本书豆瓣评分这么低真是让人怀疑豆瓣读书的是不是都是手不沾阳春水的文青
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