BECK ULRICH

ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΥΣΗΣ
Ο κοινωνιολόγος Ούλριχ Μπεκ έχει παρουσιάσει ενδιαφέρουσες αναλύσεις για το πώς λειτουργούν οι μοντέρνες κοινωνίες και ο σύγχρονος κόσμος μέσα στον οποίο ζούμε. Το παρόν έργο διαφοροποίησε το βλέμμα μας για εμάς τους ίδιους και όσα μας συμβαίνουν: αντικατέστησε την έννοια "βιομηχανική κοινωνία" όχι με την "καταναλωτική κοινωνία", όπως έκαναν τόσοι άλλοι, αλλά με την έννοια "κοινωνία της διακινδύνευσης". Η "κοινωνία της διακινδύνευσης", κατά τον Μπεκ, χαρακτηρίζει την εξέλιξη των νεωτερικών σύγχρονων κοινωνιών στην πορεία προς την παγκόσμια...
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ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΜΑΚΙΑΒΕΛΛΙ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΡΚΙΑΒΕΛΛΙ
Στον περίφημο λόγο του σε φοιτητικό ακροατήριο στο Αμβούργο το 1953, ο Τόμας Μαν καλούσε τους Γερμανούς να μην επιδιώξουν ξανά τη δημιουργία μιας "γερμανικής Ευρώπης". Τώρα, όμως, ως αποτέλεσμα της κρίσης του ευρώ, φαίνεται να έχουμε οδηγηθεί ακριβώς εκεί: η μεγαλύτερη οικονομική δύναμη της Ευρώπης είναι σήμερα σε θέση να επιβάλλει τους όρους της ώστε να μπορούν οι αδύναμες χώρες του ευρώ να συνεχίσουν να δανείζονται, σε τέτοιο βαθμό που η δημοκρατική αυτονομία των κοινοβουλίων της Ελλάδας, της Ιταλίας, της Ισπανίας -και τελικά και της ίδι...
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ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ 'Η ΚΑΠΙΤΑΛΙΣΜΟΣ
Σ' αυτό το νέο βιβλίο, ο Ούλριχ Μπεκ και ο δημοσιογράφος Γιοχάνες Βιλμς κάνουν μια σειρά συζητήσεις, προσιτές για το κοινό, οι οποίες αποκαλύπτουν και διερευνούν τα βασικά στοιχεία της σκέψης του Μπεκ. Ο Ούλριχ Μπεκ αναγνωρίζεται ευρέως ως ένας από τους σημαντικότερους και πιο εξέχοντες σύγχρονους κοινωνικούς στοχαστές. Το έργο του για την κοινωνία του ρίσκου, τη νεωτερικότητα και τα πιο πρόσφατα κείμενά του για την παγκοσμιοποίηση και την εξατομίκευση τον έχουν φέρει στο προσκήνιο των σύγχρονων αναζητήσεων. Οι συζητήσεις του ανά χείρας β...
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ΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ;
Στο καινούργιο του βιβλίο ο Ούλριχ Μπεκ παρουσιάζει ένα μεγάλο τμήμα της συζήτησης για την παγκοσμιοποίηση. Αναλύει τη θέση του ατόμου-πολίτη και του εθνικού κράτους στο νέο διεθνές περιβάλλον. Καταγράφει τις αδύνατες πλευρές και τις νέες θέσεις της κοινωνιολογίας όσον αφορά την παγκοσμιοποίηση. Παρουσιάζει τις θεωρίες για το παγκόσμιο καπιταλιστικό σύστημα. Για τον καπιταλισμό χωρίς εργασία. Για τον υπερεθνικό πλούτο σε αντίθεση με τη διεθνή φτώχεια. Ο συγγραφέας συγκεντρώνει την προσοχή του στην υπερεθνική εκπολιτισμένη κοινωνία και στο ...
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(P/B) A GOD OF ONE'S OWN
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 acknowledge God's existence. What this means is that alongside the abolition of class and nation within the community of believers, religion introduces a new fundamental distinction into the world the distinction between the right kind of believers and the wrong kind. Thus overtl...
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(P/B) REFLEXIVE MODERNIZATION
The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the "risk society" has already become extraordinarily influential. He offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting reflexive modernization with new issues to do with the state and political organization. Giddens offers an in-depth examination of the connections between "institutional reflexivity" and the...
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(P/B) TWENTY OBSERVATIONS ON A WORLD IN TURMOIL
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 new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change. Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local issues and react to people's specific demands, but without a cosmopolitan outlook, such a reaction is likely to be inadequate. Ulrich Beck's "Twenty-one Observations on a World...
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(P/B) COSMOPOLITAN VISION
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 analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly. Contrasting a `cosmopolitan vision' or `outlook' shar...
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(H/B) THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WORLD
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 always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from th...
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(P/B) THE REINVENTION OF POLITICS
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 democracy, the welfare state, trade unionism, and social classes as agents of change, but once these have been thrown into crisis what other institutions do we have to depend on? The Reinvention of Politics, suggests we should think again about forging a new model of politics for o...
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(P/B) RISK SOCIETY
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern. Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the "risk society". The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and t...
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(P/B) WORLD AT RISK
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 forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have ...
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(P/B) POWER IN THE GLOBAL AGE
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 in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies ...
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(P/B) THE NORMAL CHAOS OF LOVE
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF WORK
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 job paths, is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be suddenly devalued, jobs obliterated, welfare cover reduced or eliminated. The West would appear to be heading towards a social structure of ambiguity and multiple activity that has hitherto been more...
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(P/B) COSMOPOLITAN EUROPE
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 terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are to understand cosmopolitan Europe, we must radically rethink the conventional categories of social and political analysis. Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the s...
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(P/B) DEMOCRACY WITHOUT ENEMIES
Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a 'tradition' to itself? What if its own necessities, functional principles and fundamental concepts are undermined, broken up and demystified with the same ruthlessness as were the supposedly eternal truths of earlier epochs? These questions are the focus of Ulrich Beck's Democracy without Enemies. The conflict of the future, he argu...
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(P/B) CONVERSATIONS WITH ULRICH BECK
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 and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms. These conversations shed new light onto the major themes in Beck's work and provide an insight into some of the commitments and beliefs that they rest upon. Includes new thinking on the risk soc...
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(P/B) INDIVIDUALIZATION