Beck / Willms Conversations with Ulrich Beck

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9448-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PCVS-Polity Conversations Series

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willmsengage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal andexplore the key elements in Beck's thought.
* * Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influentialcontemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in aseries of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.
* These conversations shed new light onto the major themes inBeck's work and provide an insight into some of thecommitments 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 contemporarydebates.
* Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyoneseeking to come to grips with Beck's work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Ulrich

Willms, Johannes

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pollack, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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