Building on Richard Sennett’s recent work

this books tries to clarify the ethical significance of craftsmanship. According to Sennett, learning to work well is a deep source of personal meaning and of fruitful cooperation. Moreover provides the foundation of citizenship. Learning to master a craft is learning to be curious and patient, to focus on relationships and learn the skills of anticipation and revision, in a continual dialogue with material that resists quick fixes and turns the craftsman outward. In the contemporary search for practically relevant perspectives that point beyond the moral poverty of a market driven society, the ethics of craftsmanship thus offers an intriguing and fruitful perspective, worth of in depth exploration.