Authors:
Topics:
Quotes › Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens Quotes About Modernity

We have collected for you the TOP of Anthony Giddens's best quotes about Modernity! Here are collected all the quotes about Modernity starting from the birthday of the Life peer – January 18, 1938! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 3 sayings of Anthony Giddens about Modernity. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
All quotes by Anthony Giddens: more...

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

    →
    Anthony Giddens
    Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

  • 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 as mediated by expert systems.

    →
    Anthony Giddens
    Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

  • 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 call open human control of the natural and social worlds.

    →
    Anthony Giddens
    Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons
Page 1 of 1
Did you find Anthony Giddens's interesting saying about Modernity? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Life peer quotes from Life peer Anthony Giddens about Modernity collected since January 18, 1938! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!
Anthony Giddens quotes about:
You May Also Like:
Pierre Bourdieu
Manuel Castells
Emile Durkheim
Erving Goffman
Tony Blair
Ulrich Beck
Karl Marx
George Ritzer

Anthony Giddens

  • Born: January 18, 1938
  • Occupation: Life peer
3 Quotes

Related Authors

Popular Topics