Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak) by U Beck
In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck's thought.
Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak)
Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak)
Summary
* Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.
Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak) Summary
Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak) Reviews
Every now and then a new way of thinking about the social world occurs. And once that happens it is difficult to imagine how sociology had managed without that new way of thinking. ...Ulrich Beck's concept of risk society ...was a kind of revelation. It provided for sociology a way of speaking of the physical world and of its risks that brought in a striking array of new topics. In effect it enabled people to speak of things, indeed in a way to see things, that they had been trying to speak of and to see, but the where the concepts had been chronically lacking. John Urry, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
About U Beck
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Johannes Willms is a journalist and writer.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking Society Anew (John Urry). 1. Post modernity or the second modernity. 2. Individualisation. 3. Global risk society. 4. Labour society and regime of risk. 5. Cosmopolitan society and its enemies. 6. The prospects for a second enlightenment. Recommended literature for further reading. Selected Works by Authors Cited in the Text. Books by the Authors in English. About the Authors. Index.
Additional information
GOR013768967
9780745628240
0745628249
Conversations with Ulrich Beck (Translated by Mich ael Pollak) by U Beck
Used - Like New
Paperback
Polity Press
2003-10-31
240
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