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66 produkter
In Defence of Populism
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2026
222 kr
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'Populist' is now most commonly used as a term of abuse. Populists, we are repeatedly told, are xenophobic ignoramuses offering irrational, emotive solutions to complex problems. But is this true?Frank Furedi argues that this is a self-serving narrative that owes more to the desire of elites to …
How Fear Works
Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
237 kr
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Frank Furedi returns to the theme of Fear in our society and culture.In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi …
Paranoid Parenting
Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2008
277 kr
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Dr Furedi's ideas on how to stop disabling today's youth and instead bring out their full potential is invaluable advice to all parents, carers and teachers."Paranoid Parenting" is an important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be …
What’s Happened To The University?
A sociological exploration of its infantilisation
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2016
629 kr
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The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of …
War Against the Past
Why The West Must Fight For Its History
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2026
187 kr
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A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it's toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past toxic. It is condemned as enemy territory and has become the target of venomous hate. What is at stake …
Vart har alla intellektuella tagit vägen? : stridsskrift mot det begynnande 2000-talets förflackare
Av Frank Füredi
Häftad, 2005
163 kr
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Why Borders Matter
Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the …
Why Borders Matter
Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2020
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
473 kr
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Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the …
Therapy Culture
Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2003
700 kr
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Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides …
Therapy Culture
Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2003
2439 kr
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First published in 2004. Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm …
Authority
A Sociological History
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2013
457 kr
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Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority …
Mythical Pasts, Elusive Futures
History and Society in an Anxious Age
Av Frank Füredi
Häftad, 1991
502 kr
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Frank Furedi examines the sources of controversy that have arisen around the question of history in Germany, Japan, Britain and the USA.
New Ideology of Imperialism
Renewing the Moral Imperative
Av Frank Füredi
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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During the nineteenth-century vast areas of the underdeveloped world were invaded and colonised under the justification of Anti Slavery and the Civilising Mission. In this powerful analysis, Furedi demonstrates how, in the late twentieth century, the major nations of the West are again intervening …
Silent War
Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race
Av Frank Füredi
Häftad, 1998
335 kr
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Racial identity has been central to twentieth-century Western imagination. Yet, argues Frank Füredi, advocates of racial identity have long felt uncomfortable with the racialised global order they created.In The Silent War, Frank Füredi provides a radical exploration of the origins of the …
Population and Development
A Critical Introduction
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 1997
776 kr
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Many experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book discusses both sides of this debate, examining the way the arguments have changed and evolved, and …
Population and Development
A Critical Introduction
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 1997
245 kr
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Many experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book discusses both sides of this debate, examining the way the arguments have changed and evolved, and …
Mau Mau War in Perspective
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 1989
388 kr
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The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the mechanics of the sociology of decolonization and on the containment of rural radicalism …
Invitation to Terror
The Expanding Empire of the Unknown
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2009
261 kr
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Frank Furedi's claim that the social attitude of the West inadvertently invites acts of terrorism is an unsettling thought, but one that must be addressed in open discussion. Frank Furedi argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an …
Politics of Fear
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2005
784 kr
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The terms "left" and "right" pervade all our discussions of politics. But do they mean anything any more? And is it really satisfactory to reduce all our political debate to these two terms? Furedi shows how contemporary and recent developments, including the Cold War, the Culture Wars and Third …
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2006
318 kr
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The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such people as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think tank apologists and spin-doctors. In the age of the …
Culture of Fear Revisited
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 2006
364 kr
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Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take …
Mau Mau War in Perspective
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 1989
333 kr
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Aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt.Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed …
Why Borders Matter
Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2020
554 kr
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Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the …
Why Borders Matter
Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2020
487 kr
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Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the …
Authority
A Sociological History
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2013
1449 kr
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Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority …
Authority
A Sociological History
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2013
555 kr
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Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve''s sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority …
Authority
A Sociological History
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2013
555 kr
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Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve''s sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority …
Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu
Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2013
762 kr
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First published in 2004. Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm …
Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu
Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
Av Frank Furedi
E-bok, 2013
762 kr
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First published in 2004. Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm …
Populism and the European Culture Wars
The Conflict of Values between Hungary and the EU
Av Frank Furedi
Inbunden, 2017
2439 kr
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Concern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose opposition to the European Union is often portrayed as a cultural crime. Ancient anti-democratic claims about the …
