ISBN:
9780745628240
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (242 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
PCVS-Polity Conversations Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Conversations with Ulrich Beck
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. 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. These conversations shed new light onto the major themes in Beck's work and provide an insight into some of the commitments and beliefs that they rest upon. Includes new thinking on the risk society and on globalisation, themes that have put him at the
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction: Thinking Society Anew; Conversation 1: Postmodernity or the Second Modernity?; Conversation 2: Individualization; Conversation 3: Global Risk Society; Conversation 4: Labor Society and the Regime of Risk; Conversation 5: Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies; Conversation 6: The Prospects for a Second Enlightenment; Selected Works by Authors Cited in the Text; Books by the Authors in English; About the Authors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
