Our Overdeveloped Sense of Vulnerability

✍ Scribed by Frank Furedi

• Book ID: 102686970
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 595 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-8504
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.213

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Industrialised development and the suburban megalopolis are commonly regarded as a threat to nature, contributing to the increasing frailty of the planet and its delicate ecosystems. Here, Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, looks beyond the immediate environmental factors and assesses the root causes of our ensuing sense of vulnerability, as our worldview is increasingly informed by a collapse in social self‐confidence.