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 Becks thought.
Ulrich Beck is widely recognized as one of the most important and
influential contemporary social thinkers. His work on risk society
and his more recent writings on globalization and individualization
have put him at the forefront of contemporary debates. These
conversations succeed in shedding new light on these major themes
as well as providing an insight into some of the commitments and
beliefs that underlie them.
This new book presents Becks ideas in an extremely clear and lucid
manner, and is thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with
Becks work.
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
Becks 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
Table of contents:
Introduction by 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
About the authors
"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 <!--end-->
Johannes Willms, geb. 1948, war von 1988 bis 1992 Leiter der Redaktion "aspekte" beim ZDF und ist jetzt Kulturkorrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" in Paris. Er hat vielbeachtete Werke zur deutschen und französischen Geschichte vorgelegt.
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