Frank Füredi

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Frank Furedi, London, 16 July 2007

Frank Furedi (originally called Ferenc Füredi, Dob 3 May 1947) is professor of sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He was, under the pseudonym Frank Richards, a leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Group, then, having been expelled from the RCG, the founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency, later the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The RCP has traversed one of the longest ideological journeys in British politics, moving from the what it described as 'ultra-left', through several incarnations into a broad collection of organisations on the libertarian right wing, including Spiked Online and the Institute of Ideas. Furedi continues to be a leading figure in this network of organisations, characterised by a vigorous anti-environmentalist, pro-GM stance, known as the LM network.

Aside from his academic work, he is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on how our society has become obsessed with risk. He writes regularly for Spiked Online, and has written several books on the subject, with titles such as Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and Culture of Fear. He wrote an article about risk culture post September 11, one of only two papers published by Global Futures.

Furedi has also written under the name of Frank Richards. He was born in Hungary in 1948. His family emigrated to Canada after the Soviets crushed the 1956 uprising and has lived in Britain since the 1970s.

Publications By Furedi

See main article: Frank Furedi: List of Publications

Furedi writing for the Thatrcherite Centre for Policy Studies. Apparently no contradiction for a former Marxist or a contemporary liberal humanist

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Contact Details

Website: www.frankfuredi.com

Biographical Notes

Interview With Furedi

  • Michael Duffy interviews Frank Furedi, "Paranoid Parenting", Counterpoint, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 21, 2005.

General Articles

Notes

  1. Data from Companies House, accessed 22 November 2010