Politics of Fear

by Furedi, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780826492944
• ISBN10: 0826492940
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

Frank Furedi argues that the traditional terms "left" and "right" as applied to politics, have been both distorted and proved inadequate by a number of developments, notably the Cold War, the Culture Wars and the prevalence of risk-adverse managerialism. The result is a politics 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Politics is Lost for Words	p. 5
Disengagement - and its Denial	p. 28
Left and Right - How the Words Lost their Meaning	p. 49
Deference to Fate	p. 71
The Conformist Revolt Against History	p. 87
Bypassing Democracy - Disconnected Elites	p. 99
The Politics of Fear	p. 123
Infantilization of the Public	p. 142
Conclusion: Humanizing Humanism	p. 159
Notes	p. 170
Bibliography	p. 182
Index	p. 191
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