Born in Hungary in 1947, Frank Furedi, sociologist, teaches at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. 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 this last work he denounces the obsession with risk, used as an instrument by certain organizations to achieve their own objectives. 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.

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