State of Fear in a Liquid World

Carlo Bordoni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

122 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-28366-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines the insecurity that besets our lives in the contemporary world, whether as a result of natural disasters, human negligence or, more recently, threats to security in the form of terrorist activity, which itself gives rise to new fears: fear of travel, agoraphobia, distrust of others and existential anxieties.

Revealing the connection between the two components of our insecurity, as reflecting on and conditioning human existence, and producing social problems, the author brings this to bear on the notion of security that modernity had sought to guarantee to its citizens – a notion that has slowly crumbled with the crisis of modernity and with the emergence of the "liquid" world.

Now insecurity is endemic and has so firmly become part of us as to be accepted as an unpleasant aspect of normality that we must live with. However, the necessity of living in a risk society in which security has emerged as important does nothing to dispel the fear that accompanies us at all times. An engagement with the thought of Bauman that explores fear as an accompaniment to the end of modernity and its assurances, State of Fear in a Liquid World offers developments of the thesis of liquid modernity and will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory and politics with interests in individualisation, social change and (in)security.

Carlo Bordoni is a sociologist, journalist, former lecturer at the University of Florence and Director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara (Italy). He writes for the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and its literary supplement, la Lettura, for the quarterly Prometeo, and the journal Social Europe online. He is the author of State of Crisis with Zygmunt Bauman, The End of Equality (Routledge, 2016) and Interregnum: Beyond Liquid Modernity.

Preface: A silent companion in a liquid world

Acknowledgements

Phobos, a God repressed

Fear of the machine

Human adaption to the machine

Natural and moral disasters

Danger as an everyday experience

Social security and individual insecurity

Fear of Invasion

Fear of Exclusion

Waste in our future

The frailty of personal relationships

Forms of reassurance

Globalization and "overclass"

The Panopticon inside the net

The anxiety-inducing State and the management of insecurity

Unde malum? A temporary conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-28366-5 / 1138283665
ISBN-13	978-1-138-28366-4 / 9781138283664
Zustand	Neuware