ISBN:
9781472947710
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Furedi, Frank How Fear Works : Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century
DDC:
302.17
Keywords:
Fear-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The idiom of fear -- The culture of fear thesis -- Media and culture -- Fear and culture -- Fear and morality -- 1 Changing Stories of Fear -- Fear rules -- Fear of death -- Fear of God -- Fear of fear -- The de-moralization of fear -- 2 Waiting for the Time Bomb to Explode -- A ticking time bomb -- The menacing future -- An alien territory -- A territory beyond comprehension -- The objectification of change -- From fear of the future to a future of fear -- 3 Moral Confusion - the Main Driver of the Culture of Fear -- Fear and morality -- Fear and moral regulation -- Fear and the imperative of moralization -- Moralizing threats -- The moralization of infant feeding -- The fear perspective -- The zero tolerance towards scepticism -- 4 The Perspective of Fear - How it Works -- The perspective of fear -- The problem of motivation -- Risk as an object of fear -- Negative theory of authority -- Avoiding evil -- The divisive impact of the perspective of fear -- 5 Creation of the Fearful Subject -- Precautionary attitudes towards personhood -- Socializing people to become fearful -- The devaluation of adult authority -- The fearful child -- Literally scared of the newborn -- 6 The Quest for Safety in a Dangerous World -- The safety imperative -- When we fear on our own -- The project of transforming safety into a value -- The dangers of a harm-free world -- Inverted quarantine -- The freedom-safety trade-off -- Conclusion: Towards a Less Fearful Future -- Challenging the loss of historical memory -- Confronting the mood of fatalism -- Rethinking socialization -- Rethinking personhood -- An alternative to the perspective of fear -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Changing Stories of Fear -- 2 Waiting for the Time Bomb to Explode
Abstract:
3 Moral Confusion - the Main Driverof the Culture of Fear -- 4 The Perspective of Fear - How it Works -- 5 Creation of the Fearful Subject -- 6 The Quest for Safety in a Dangerous World -- Conclusion: Towards a Less Fearful Future -- Bibliography -- Index
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