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Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. He is the author of Counterpoison (1991) and Ecological Enlightenment (1992).
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The Metamorphosis of the World

Ulrich Beck


Polity

2016-09-02

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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they...

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Télécharger le livre :  Non à l'Europe allemande
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Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Peut-on venir à bout de la crise européenne ? L’union politique est-elle envisageable ? Pour Ulrich Beck, nous avons trop longtemps mis de côté la question d’une société commune au profit de l’économie. Le célèbre sociologue allemand...

Editeur : Autrement
Parution : 2013-05-15

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Télécharger le livre :  What Is Globalization?
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This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk
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Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Reinvention of Politics
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Those who advocate ideas about "postmodernity" and "post-industrialism" offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Normal Chaos of Love
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This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Brave New World of Work
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In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitan Vision
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In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitan Europe
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Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. ButEurope remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  A God of One's Own
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Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Conversations with Ulrich Beck
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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, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-15
Collection : Conversations
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Télécharger le livre :  Power in the Global Age
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This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Ulrich Beck
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This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-03-22
Collection : SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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Télécharger le livre :  Distant Love
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Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-18

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Télécharger le livre :  World at Risk
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Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
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Translated by Ciaran Cronin.   The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-26

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Télécharger le livre :  German Europe
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The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Individualization
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Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of...

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2001-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Risk Society and Beyond
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Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social...

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2000-05-25

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