Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich)

The Metamorphosis of the World

How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780745690223
• ISBN-10: 074569022X
• Artikelnr.: 46489047

Autorenporträt

Ulrich Beck 1944-2015) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and the LSE and one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Introduction, Evidence, Theory
Chapter I. Why metamorphosis of the world, why not transformation?
Chapter II. Being God
Chapter III. How climate change might save the world
Chapter IV. Theorising metamorphosis
Themes
Chapter V. From class to risk-class: Inequality in times of metamorphosis
Chapter VI. Where does the power go? Politics of invisibility
Chapter VII. Emancipatory catastrophism: Common goods as side effects of
bads
Chapter VIII. Public bads: Politics of visibility
Chapter IX. Digital risk: Failing of functioning institutions
Chapter X. Meta-power game of politics: Metamorphosis of the nation and
international relations
Chapter XI. Cosmopolitan communities of risk: From United Nations to United
Cities
Outlook
Chapter XII. Global Risk Generations: United in decline
Bibliography