The Politics of Uncertainty

Informationen zum Autor Peter Marris is Emeritus Professor of Social Planning, University of California, Los Angeles and teaches at Yale University. Klappentext Attachment in private and public life. In the Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Zusammenfassung This provocative and important book makes a convincing case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels to ensure our economic and social survival in the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I Meaning, attachment and predictability 1 The uncertainties of everyday life 2 Uncertainty and the construction of meaning 3 The idea of self 4 Attachment 5 Attachment and control of uncertainty 6 Meanings in public and private Part II Controlling uncertainty 7 Controlling relationships 8 Self-defeating defences against uncertainty 9 Loss and the recovery of meaning 10 Planning 11 Reciprocity versus competition 12 Moral uncertainty

Autorentext
Peter Marris is Emeritus Professor of Social Planning, University of California, Los Angeles and teaches at Yale University.

Klappentext
Attachment in private and public life. In the Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations.

Zusammenfassung
This provocative and important book makes a convincing case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels to ensure our economic and social survival in the twenty-first century.

Inhalt
Introduction Part I Meaning, attachment and predictability 1 The uncertainties of everyday life 2 Uncertainty and the construction of meaning 3 The idea of self 4 Attachment 5 Attachment and control of uncertainty 6 Meanings in public and private Part II Controlling uncertainty 7 Controlling relationships 8 Self-defeating defences against uncertainty 9 Loss and the recovery of meaning 10 Planning 11 Reciprocity versus competition 12 Moral uncertainty

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