Abstract
ABSTRACTThe sociologists Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens theorise that we are living in a risk society, characterised by the increasing prevalence of low probability—high consequence threats to human health. Communities are characterised by the constant state of apprehension, anxiety and the rise of ontological insecurity. Rather than reading science as the discourse of objectivity, the risk society approach reveals that the uncertainty and contingency that assails modern society is an unanticipated side effect of modernity itself. This article argues that Ian McEwan's Enduring Love dramatises the subjective experience of apprehension generated by risk society dynamics and charts its effects on the reception of expert knowledge, scientific discourse, and the abstract systems of modernity.
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