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Frank Furedi
Sociologist - Journalist
University of Kent, UK
Born in Hungary in 1947, Frank Furedi, teaches at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. He fled from Hungary in 1956 after the political uprising, moving to Canada and then to Great Britain where he founded the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1970, which disbanded in 1997. Under Furedi's guidance the RCP published The Next Step, a daily paper, in the 80s, and the journal Living Marxism in the 90s. He is a supporter of the British Humanist Association. Furedi is a lead writer for the web-journal Spiked Online, and the author of numerous essays on the sociology of risk, including Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation (1997), The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race (1998), Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent (2001), Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2003) and The Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right (2005). In 2007, he published Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown, (Continuum International Publishing Group), in which he analyses the impact of the phenomenon of terrorism after the attacks in New York on 11 September 2001. Day and hour of the speech
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