Auteur: Ulrich Beck

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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 bi …

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 bi …

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 th …

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 th …

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 chan …

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 democra …

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 instituti …

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. …

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 beg …

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. …

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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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 …

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 …

Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in t …

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 …

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. …

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 democra …

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 instituti …

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. Das E-Book What Is Globalization? wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wur …

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 beg …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in t …

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 …

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 rallyi …

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 …

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores glo …

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 …

1953 warnte Thomas Mann die Deutschen in seiner berühmten Hamburger Rede davor, jemals wieder nach einem »deutschen Europa« zu streben. Im Zuge der Euro-Krise ist nun jedoch genau das Realität geword …

Mit der Ankunft der Zeitgeschichtsschreibung in den siebziger und achtziger Jahren ist eine Reflexion auf die Geschichte der Moderne und ihre Vorgeschichte unabweisbar geworden. Es steht an, den inte …

Familie und Liebe in Zeiten der Globalisierung: Die Großeltern in Thessaloniki und ihr Enkel in Cambridge sprechen jeden Abend miteinander – via Skype. Eine US-Amerikanerin und ihr schweizerischer Eh …

Als 1986 Risikogesellschaft erschien, machte das Ulrich Beck schlagartig berühmt. Der Soziologe wies nicht nur auf die Nebenfolgen der Industriemoderne hin, er betonte zugleich, dass die Welt sich au …

»Arm an geschichtlichen Katastrophen war dieses Jahrhundert wahrlich nicht: zwei Weltkriege, Auschwitz, Nagasaki, dann Harrisburg und Bhopal, nun Tschernobyl. Das zwingt zur Behutsamkeit der Wortwahl …

Viel zu lange glaubte man, für die Erforschung des Klimawandels seien ausschließlich Meteorologen, Meereskundler und Gletscherforscher zuständig. Doch die Klimaerwärmung konfrontiert Menschen, Kultur …

Vom Migranten bis zur Managerin – Mobilität ist eines der Merkmale der Globalisierung geworden. Viele sehen sie als Chance, um ihren Alltag selbstbestimmter zu gestalten. Negative Aspekte wie das Leb …

Vielfältige Krisen bestimmen derzeit die Wahrnehmung Europas. Dieses Buch lädt dazu ein, die brüchige Gegenwart des europäischen Projekts aus dem Blickwinkel seiner wenig beachteten globalen Verflech …

Seit einigen Jahren wird in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften international kaum ein Phänomen so lebhaft diskutiert wie das der Globalisierung. Nachdem die zu Anfang vorherrschende Sichtweise von …

»Anno 1977 bedurfte es noch enormer Anstrengungen, um ein Medium zu ersinnen, mit dessen Hilfe man hoffte, Außeriridschen ein Bild vom Zustand unserer Welt zu vermitteln. Heute hätte es die NASA erhe …

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 …

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 rallyi …

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von Ulrich Beck, Maarten Hajer, Sven Kesselring Die Grundidee des Buches Erleben wir eine Wiederkehr der Politik? Oder eine Krise, vielleicht sogar das Ende der Politik? Für beide Deutungen finden si …

State-of-the-art assessments of current research into the human dimensions of global environmental change and promising directions for future advancements.The colossal human ecological footprint now …

Um estudo sobre a hegemonia política e ideológica da Alemanha na Europa. Em um famoso discurso proferido em Hamburgo em 1953, Thomas Mann advertiu os alemães sobre o perigo de quererem voltar a almej …

Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of th …

Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of th …