Conversations with Ulrich Beck - Ulrich Beck, Johannes Willms

Conversations with Ulrich Beck

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2003
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-2823-3 (ISBN)
68,55 inkl. MwSt
* 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.
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 forefront of contemporary debates.

Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Johannes Willms is a journalist and writer.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.2003
Reihe/Serie Conversations
Übersetzer Michael Pollack
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 224 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-7456-2823-0 / 0745628230
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-2823-3 / 9780745628233
Zustand Neuware
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