Politics of Fear

By Frank Furedi

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2005
ISBN
9781474212526
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8155142 bytes)
Pages
\197
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:04:02

Description

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 prevalence 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.

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