State of Fear in a Liquid World
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-60746-3 (ISBN)
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 | 01.07.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-60746-8 / 0367607468 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-60746-3 / 9780367607463 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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