Anthony Giddens

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

— Anthony Giddens

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…

— Anthony Giddens

High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts…

— Anthony Giddens

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what…

— Anthony Giddens

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…

— Anthony Giddens

“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism…

— Anthony Giddens

Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…

— Anthony Giddens

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were…

— Anthony Giddens

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

— Anthony Giddens

The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of…

— Anthony Giddens

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

— Anthony Giddens

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…

— Anthony Giddens

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

— Anthony Giddens

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

— Anthony Giddens

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,…

— Anthony Giddens

In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…

— Anthony Giddens

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings…

— Anthony Giddens

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

— Anthony Giddens

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but…

— Anthony Giddens

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of…

— Anthony Giddens

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

— Anthony Giddens

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

— Anthony Giddens

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

— Anthony Giddens

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…

— Anthony Giddens

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…

— Anthony Giddens