Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

reviews

Review: Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Times Higher Education, 2 February 2012
Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to.

Review - The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Times Higher Education, 19 May 2011
A return to the beginning of history recasts the story of modernisation. Frank Furedi is enlightened.

Review: ‘The Least Worst Place’, by Karen Greenberg
Times Higher Education, 17 September 2009
So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal.

Book of the week: Our Nation Unhinged
Times Higher Education, 28 May 2009
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US.

Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Times Higher Education, 12 February 2009
Book review: Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.

The rise and rise of the New Malthusianism
spiked, 30 May 2008
Fatal Misconception is a thorough study of the history of the population-control lobby – but it fatally underestimates how influential the new green-leaning Malthusianism has become.

When all that’s Left is despair
Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 June 2007
There is hope in John Berger's study of modern disillusion, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance.

Politics without sovereignty is not politics at all
spiked, 30 April 2007
He may be a 'professional exile', but a new book reminds Frank Furedi that the ideal of national sovereignty is worth defending today [review]

Respect: the formation of character in an age of inequality
New Statesman, 10 February 2003
by Richard Sennett, published Allen Lane, The Penguin Press

The Politics of the Forked Tongue: authoritarian liberalism [review]
New Statesman, 14 October 2002
by Aidan Rankin, New European Publications

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