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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303.44 21

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"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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