World at risk

by Beck, Ulrich

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Full title :World at risk / Ulrich Beck ; translated by Ciaran Cronin

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008

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Originaltitel: Weltrisikogesellschaft

New ed. - 2009. - Eks. 2

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk Chapter 2 Relations of Definition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is not a Risk? Chapter 3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment Chapter 4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception Chapter 5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real Is Catastrophic Climate Change? Chapter 6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism concerning Progress Chapter 7 Knowledge or Non-Knowledge? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' Chapter 8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism Chapter 9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence Chapter 10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards must be studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism Chapter 11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society Chapter 12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity Bibliography

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Description:viii, 269 s. : : ill ; : 23 cm.

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ISBN:9780745642000 (hbk.), 0745642004 (hbk.), 9780745642017 (pbk.), 0745642012 (pbk.)
oclc:on1102479099
Dewey Decimal:304.2

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