Non-fiction
Socity of Fear

Heinz Bude

English

Socity of Fear
Heinz Bude
Translation: Jessica Spengler
Cambridge, Polity 2018
160 pages

German

Gesellschaft der Angst
Heinz Bude
Hamburg, 2014
168 pages

Heinz Bude examines the concept of fear and its significance for processes in a society from a sociological perspective. The individual's fear of the future, of social decline, loss of employment, of unknown scenarios, etc. can consolidate into an assortment of emotions. 

Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

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