The Case for Working with Your Hands
Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good
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Why do we so often think of our working selves as separate from our true selves?Drawingon the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from ...
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independent published on Sun, 23 Jan 2011
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The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
The call to respect handwork, as opposed to brainwork, returns like the comet. Some of us listen, try it, drift away and the cycle begins again. This is not to denigrate the call – I have heard and tried to respond to it myself. You would be rightly ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Others 256 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0141047291
- ISBN-13: 9780141047294
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2011
- Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The Case For Working with Your Hands, By Matthew Crawford
Part memoir, part philosophical treatise, part pedagogical tool, Matthew Crawford's book explores the benefits to be derived from manual labour and celebrates the "rich cognitive challenges" afforded by the trades. A professional philosopher, Crawfor ... (read full critics)