Ulrich Beck 
Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk [EPUB ebook] 

Translator’s Note.
Preface.
Introduction: The Immortality of Industrial Society and the
Contents of the Book.
Part I: Dead Ends.
1. Barbarism Modernised: The Eugenic Age.
2. The Naturalistic Misunderstanding of the Ecological Movement:
Environmental Critique as Social Critique.
3. Industrial Fatalism: Organised Irresponsibility.
Part II: Antidotes.
4. The Self-Refutation of Bureaucracy: The Victory of
Industralism over Itself.
5. Implementation as Abolition of Technocracy: The Logic of
Relativistic Science.
6. The ‘Poisoned Cake’: Capital and Labour in Risk Society.
7. Conflicts over Progress: The Technocratic Challenge to
Democracy.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich.