Non-fiction
Socity of Fear

Heinz Bude

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. 

English

Socity of Fear
Heinz Bude
Translation: Jessica Spengler
Cambridge, Polity 2018
160 pages
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

German original title

German

Heinz Bude
Gesellschaft der Angst

Hamburg, 2014
168 pages

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