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Sense Quotes by 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 this phenomenon only…
- The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
- 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 also…
- The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
- A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -…
- [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking,…
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