Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeAcknowledgements. Chapter 1. Introduction: Staging Global Risk. Chapter 2. Relations of Definition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is not a Risk?. Chapter 3. The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment. Chapter 4. Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception. Chapter 5. Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real Is Catastrophic Climate Change?. Chapter 6. The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism concerning Progress. Chapter 7. Knowledge or Non-Knowledge? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization'. Chapter 8. The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism. Chapter 9. Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence. Chapter 10. Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards must be studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism. Chapter 11. Critical Theory of World Risk Society. Chapter 12. Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity. Bibliography
Autorenportrait
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich.
