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.
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...
评分在北京的北海公园附近的一条胡同里,美国人马修·克劳福德找到了知音---一位自行车修理师傅。这位师傅有一辆敞篷手推车,里面放着很多自行车零部件和修理工具。 在路边摆摊的修理师傅主要给附近的街坊邻居修车,基本上不怎么说话。“他身上没有任何企业的标志,也没有必要去推...
评分在北京的北海公园附近的一条胡同里,美国人马修·克劳福德找到了知音---一位自行车修理师傅。这位师傅有一辆敞篷手推车,里面放着很多自行车零部件和修理工具。 在路边摆摊的修理师傅主要给附近的街坊邻居修车,基本上不怎么说话。“他身上没有任何企业的标志,也没有必要去推...
评分看完本书,没有激情澎湃。说实话有很多不明白的地方,不知道是自己跟不上书本节奏还是太高深了。不过就一个道理是真的:追寻自己想要的生活。不过其他的什么理论,辩证就着实看不懂了。或许是自己思想太浅了,是在没法明白这本书。
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...
啊我没有看完,看了几页就觉得很蠢了。水管工再挣钱so what 呢,我就喜欢享受买别人服务的快乐啊
评分啊我没有看完,看了几页就觉得很蠢了。水管工再挣钱so what 呢,我就喜欢享受买别人服务的快乐啊
评分啊我没有看完,看了几页就觉得很蠢了。水管工再挣钱so what 呢,我就喜欢享受买别人服务的快乐啊
评分Reading this book, I read into J's mind. The value of handwork.
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