Ecological enlightenment : essays on the politics of the risk society.

Contributor(s):

Beck, Ulrich

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1995Description: 159 pISBN:

039103832X (pbk)

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DDC classification:

303.44 21

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	303.44 ECO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900064841

"Originally published as Politik in der Risikogesellschaft, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1991"--T.p. verso

"Translated by Mark A. Ritter"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Politics in risk society -- Survival issues, social structure, and ecological enlightenment -- On the mortality of industrial society -- Anthropological shock: Chernobyl and the contours of the risk society -- We fatalists: in the labyrinth of risk society -- Science and security -- Eugenics of the future -- The world as laboratory -- Blind realism: sociology and the crises of industrial modernity -- Sociology and the ecological issue -- The conflict of two modernities -- The unfinished democracy

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