Argues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the auth... » 

Argues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others. «