The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
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