Book contents
- A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety
- Reviews
- A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- A Note on Referencing
- Introduction
- Part One Uncertainty, Risk and Anxiety
- Chapter One Our Age of Anxiety
- Chapter Two Populism and Nationalism
- Chapter Three The Confounding Diversity of Globalisation
- Chapter Four The Rise of Disruptive Technologies and Dominating Platforms
- Part Two Our Inheritance of Thought and Action: Addressing our Anxiety
- Part Three A Modest Rule of Law Helps Frame a Healthier Society
- Conclusion: That a Beginning be Made
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter One - Our Age of Anxiety
from Part One - Uncertainty, Risk and Anxiety
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2023
- A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety
- Reviews
- A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- A Note on Referencing
- Introduction
- Part One Uncertainty, Risk and Anxiety
- Chapter One Our Age of Anxiety
- Chapter Two Populism and Nationalism
- Chapter Three The Confounding Diversity of Globalisation
- Chapter Four The Rise of Disruptive Technologies and Dominating Platforms
- Part Two Our Inheritance of Thought and Action: Addressing our Anxiety
- Part Three A Modest Rule of Law Helps Frame a Healthier Society
- Conclusion: That a Beginning be Made
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although writing in 1866, it feels as though Dostoyevsky were speaking directly to you and me, talking about our own time. A pestilence has indeed struck the world, but not just a pestilence affecting our physical health. We are living in a time when it really does seem that there is an epidemic of anxiety, one that has multiple causes that Dostoyevsky imagined in the nightmare he describes. People infected with ripe over-confidence in exclusive truth that is not open to challenge. People judging each other so harshly and with such strong language that discourse becomes manic and unproductive. People living in desperation, envy and loathing, despite the extraordinary human progress of the last few centuries.13 How can we move beyond this troubling vision?
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- A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety , pp. 11 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023