Conversations with Ulrich Beck E-Book

Ulrich Beck

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: PCVS-Polity Conversations Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 434

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

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.

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• 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.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Conversations

Title page

Copyright page

Introduction: Thinking Society Anew

Conversation 1: Postmodernity or the Second Modernity?

Conversation 2: Individualization

Conversation 3: Global Risk Society

Conversation 4: Labor Society and the Regime of Risk

Conversation 5: Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies

Conversation 6: The Prospects for a Second Enlightenment

Selected Works by Authors Cited in the Text

Books by the Authors in English

About the Authors

Index

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

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Conversations

Published

Bauman & Tester,

Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman

Beck & Willms,

Conversations with Ulrich Beck

Castells & Ince,

Conversations with Manuel Castells

Giddens & Pierson,

Conversations with Anthony Giddens

Žižek & Daly,

Conversations with Žižek

Forthcoming

Eagleton & Milne,

Conversations with Terry Eagleton

Hall & Schwarz,

Conversations with Stuart Hall

Sennett & Klinenberg,

Conversations with Richard Sennett

Copyright © this translation Polity Press 2004

Based on a revised version of Freiheit oder Kapitalismus, © Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000.

First published in 2004 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beck, Ulrich, 1944–

[Freiheit oder Kapitalismus. English]

Conversations with Ulrich Beck / Ulrich Beck and Johannes Willms; translated by Michael Pollak.

        p.    cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7456-2823-0 (hb : alk. paper) – ISBN 0-7456-2824-9 (pb : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-7456-9448-1 (epub) – ISBN 978-0-7456-9355-2 (mobi)

1.  Liberty.    2.  Sociology.    3.  Social groups.    4.  Capitalism.    I.  Willms, Johannes, 1948–    II.  Title.

HM1266.B42513 2004

301–dc21

            2003008590

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This book is based on the translation by Michael Pollak of Freiheit oder Kapitalismus published by Suhrkamp Verlag. It has been revised for the English edition.

Introduction: Thinking Society Anew

John Urry

Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

Every now and then a new way of thinking about the social world appears. And once that happens it is difficult to imagine how sociology had managed without that new way of thinking. It simply seems so obvious. Further, it is often difficult to see why it had taken so long to get to that novel way of thinking; once “discovered” it is hard to imagine what all the fuss was about. The new theory or concept or method rapidly becomes part of the academic furniture, one prop that supports or holds up sociological thinking. The distinctiveness of the innovation may thus be hard to see even just a few years later. It is normalized, making possible some understanding of the extraordinarily opaque and hard to fathom social world.