World at risk

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'World at Risk' is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.

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

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.
Edition:The English ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

Notes

Previous edition: originally published in German as Weltrisikogesellschaft Suhrkamp, 2007.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 269 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745642000, 0745642004, 9780745642017, 0745642012
oclc:on1058368549
LC Classification:HM1101
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Relations of definition as relations of domination: who decides what is and is not a risk? -- The 'cosmopolitan moment' of world risk society or: Enforced enlightenment -- Clash of risk cultures or: Thh overlapping of the state of normalcy -- and the state of exception -- Global political sphere and global subpolitics or: How real is catastrophic climate change? -- The provident state or: On the antiquatedness of linear pessimism concerning progress -- Knowledge or non-knowing? two perspectives of 'reflexive modernization' -- The insurance principle: criticism and counter-criticism -- Felt war, felt peace: staging violence -- Global inequality, local vulnerability: the conflict dynamics of environmental hazards must be studies within the framework of methodological cosmopolitanism -- Critical theory of world risk society -- Dialectics of modernity: how the crises of modernity follow from the triumphs of modernity.

Subjects

Écologie humaine -- Aspect politique Environmental degradation Environnement -- Dégradation Human ecology -- Political aspects Politique mondiale -- 21e siècle Risk -- Social aspects Risk -- Sociological aspects Risque -- Aspect social Risque -- Aspect sociologique Terrorism Terrorisme World politics World politics -- 21st century