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9780745622217

World Risk Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745622217

  • ISBN10:

    0745622216

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-18
  • Publisher: Polity
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Summary

This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.

Author Biography

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto
1(18)
World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties
19(29)
From Industrial Society to Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment
48(24)
Risk Society and the Welfare State
72(19)
Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power
91(18)
Knowledge or Unawareness? Two Perspectives on `Reflexive Modernization'
109(24)
Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes
133(20)
Notes 153(8)
References 161(7)
Index 168

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