Culture of Fear Revisited: Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

by Frank Furedi

Book Overview

Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. But compared to the past, or to the developing world, people in contemporary Western societies have much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826493955
• ISBN13: 9780826493958
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"