Politics of Fear

by Frank Furedi

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826487289
• ISBN13: 9780826487285
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"