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.
整本书核心观点就一个,「体力劳动与脑力劳动的结合,才是完整富有意义的工作体验」。 然而,过多对修理摩托车的细节描述,让我这个对摩托车一无所知的“文盲”表示完全看不懂且枯燥无味,如果能给出在修理过程中,通过什么样的思考过程让人体验到怎样的工作乐趣,或意义,会不...
评分拿到这本小书,首先映入眼帘的是书皮上一辆红色的宝马摩托,背景是一间简陋的工作间。 醒目的白色标题告诉人们这并不是一本摩托车修理手册,而是对人生的又一次哲思。 当时所以选了这册名字怪怪的小书,多半是被作者的背景所吸引。一个名校芝大毕业的政治学博士,依然放弃...
评分摩托車修理技術與崇尚管理的社會 文:彭礪青 作者:馬修.柯勞佛 出版:大塊文化 出版日期:2010年6月 定價:港幣93元 我們身處於數碼化的年代,這是一個崇尚管理、數據分析的社會,這是管理人駕馭技工、數碼科技凌駕手工藝的社會。自海德格與漢娜.阿倫特以降,許多哲學...
评分专注力是这个时代所欠缺的,而工匠精神就更不用说了。最近在读《摩托车修理店未来工作哲学》让工匠精神回归。感触很深,我们的手艺人,那种死磕精神和投入,成为了这个时代所稀缺的。 点点滴滴都是修炼,敢于死磕注定成就“大事”。不妨来修炼一门手艺,做一个手艺人,让工匠...
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
评分有点像Alain de Botton的那些书。不过这本的内容有点散乱。可能几篇长一点的blog已经能把道理都讲清楚了。
评分鬼迷心窍滤镜加半星 4.5
评分充满了男性masculinity的味道,后半部分比前半部分堪读,想到当年工作时那种cubicle drone的感觉似曾相识,quit the job也算明智之举。
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