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Conversations with Ulrich Beck (PCVS-Polity Conversations Series) [Hardcover]

Ulrich Beck (Author), Johannes Willms (Author), Michael Pollack (Translator)

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0745628230 978-0745628233 January 26, 2004 1
In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

  • Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.
  • These conversations shed new light onto the major themes in Beck’s work and provide an insight into some of the commitments 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 contemporary debates.
  • Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

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"Every now and then a new way of thinking about the social world occurs. And once that happens it is difficult to imagine how sociology had managed without that new way of thinking. ….Ulrich Beck’s concept of risk society …was a kind of revelation. It provided for sociology a way of speaking of the physical world and of its risks that brought in a striking array of new topics. In effect it enabled people to speak of things, indeed in a way to “see” things, that they had been trying to speak of and to see, but the where the concepts had been chronically lacking." John Urry, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University

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In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

Ulrich Beck is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers. His work on risk society and his more recent writings on globalization and individualization have put him at the forefront of contemporary debates. These conversations succeed in shedding new light on these major themes as well as providing an insight into some of the commitments and beliefs that underlie them.


This new book presents Beck’s ideas in an extremely clear and lucid manner, and is thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.


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second modern risks, banal cosmopolitanism, second modernity, global risk society, zombie concepts, first modernity, self entrepreneur, methodological nationalism, second enlightenment, risk consciousness, individualized society, cooperation states, reflexive modernization, cosmopolitan society
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