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"Full of ideas and insights and thus extremely stimulating reading ... essential reading for those seeking to bridge the gap between theory about societies and theories about world politics - a bridge that is urgently needed."
"Full of ideas and insights and thus extremely stimulating reading ... essential reading for those seeking to bridge the gap between theory about societies and theories about world politics - a bridge that is urgently needed."
-- Millennium: Journal of International Studies
"A critical and dispassionate account of ecological threats that are wealth-driven, poverty-driven, or are owed to nuclear, biological and chemical means of mass destruction; a powerful discourse on risk calculation and insurability that permeates the book in an almost metaphorical sense; and, as a bonus for the disappointed student of socialist political economy, a poignant if implicit refutation of liberal economics and rational choice theory as meaningful explanatory tools of reality."
-- Canadian Journal of Political Science
'This challenging collection of essays by one of the major social theorists of our time is essential reading for anyone interested to get to know the breadth of Ulrich Beck's work on the 'Risk Society'. Addressing academics and policy makers, Beck analyses the impact of the 'World Risk Society' on the environment and considers the implications of this globalization of 'organized irresponsibility' for socio-political and economic action. World Risk Society is social theory at its contemporary best: powerful, engaged and socially relevant.'
-- Barbara Adam, Cardiff University
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This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.
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All around the world, contemporary society is undergoing radical change that poses a challenge to Enlightenment-based modernity and opens a field where people choose new and unexpected forms of the social and the political. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
global subpolitics, world risk society, global risk society, expert rationality, cosmopolitan parties, organized irresponsibility, manufactured uncertainties, second modernity, first modernity, reflexive modernization, risk regime, manufactured uncertainty, industrial modernity, global dangers, reflexive modernity, cosmopolitan democracy, industrial risks, industrial modernization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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All around the world, contemporary society is undergoing radical change that poses a challenge to Enlightenment-based modernity and opens a field where people choose new and unexpected forms of the social and the political. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
global subpolitics, world risk society, global risk society, expert rationality, cosmopolitan parties, organized irresponsibility, manufactured uncertainties, second modernity, first modernity, reflexive modernization, risk regime, manufactured uncertainty, industrial modernity, global dangers, reflexive modernity, cosmopolitan democracy, industrial risks, industrial modernization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order by Ulrich Beck on 5 pages
- Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Professor Scott M Lash on 4 pages
- Ecological Enlightenment: Essays on the Politics of the Risk Society by Ulrich Beck in Front Matter, page 48, and Back Matter
- We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on page 118, and Back Matter
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- War as Risk Management: Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks (Contemporary Security Studies) by Yee-Kuang Heng on 6 pages
- Security and Climate Change: The Limits of Realism (Routledge Research in Environmentalpolitics) by Mark Lacy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization by Walter Truett Anderson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame by Barbara Herr Harthorn in Front Matter, page 30, and page 205
- The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy by Ruth C. A. Higgins on page 74, page 75, and Back Matter
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