Politics of Fear

Furedi argues that the traditional terms left and right have been both distorted and proved inadequate by a number of developments, notably the Cold War, the Culture Wars and (as he's shown in previous books) the prevalance of risk-adverse managerialism. The result is a politics (both big P and little p) that fails to take humans seriously as humans and which, necessarily, evades discussion of right and wrong. Furedi shows that the single most important political need is for an adequate conception of humanity (and, in the process, the public) and that it is this that will produce a new and more imaginative alignment in politics.

Author: Frank Furedi
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 11/15/2005
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.36w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780826487285

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/14/2005

About the Author
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of numerous books including Culture of Fear, Invitation to Terror and Paranoid Parenting, all published by Continuum.

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