Society of Fear

" 'Fear,' writes Heinz Bude, 'reveals the direction in which a society is moving.' Rather than analyzing the symptoms of angst today - proliferating in blogs, self-help literature, and anxiety disorders - Bude masterfully explores the existential, political, and generational experiences that create the conditions for a 'society of fear.'"
John Borneman, Princeton University
 
"Consider that this slim volume, newly translated for the English-speaking market, was originally published in German in 2014 when the seeds of current tumult were perceptible but the political fruits not yet fallen -- and that in this Bude resembles the pioneering Freud: Civilisation was published in 1930 just as the world was about to undergo a period of havoc."
The Financial Times