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World at risk / Ulrich Beck ; translated by Ciaran Cronin.
Van Pelt Library HM1101 .B429713 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.
- Standardized Title:
- Weltrisikogesellschaft. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Risk--Social aspects.
- Risk.
- Risk--Sociological aspects.
- Environmental degradation.
- Terrorism.
- Human ecology--Political aspects.
- Human ecology.
- World politics--21st century.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Translated from German.
- Summary:
- '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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : staging global risk
- 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 : the overlapping of the state of normalcy and the state of exception
- Global public 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 studied 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-260) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0745642012
- 9780745642000
- 0745642004
- 9780745642017
- OCLC:
- 233544917
- Publisher Number:
- 99954842609
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