En un discurso pronunciado en Hamburgo en 1953, el escritor Thomas Mann advirtió a los alemanes de que nunca más se esforzasen en conseguir una Europa alemana. No obstante, como resultado de la crisis del euro, esto es exactamente lo que...
Primer Mundo y vidas desperdiciadas. Miedos existenciales y esperanzas de futuro. La generación menos contra la generación más cuando en realidad, ambas pertenecen a la generación global. Una relación mútua pre&nt...
«¿Qué significa, pues, la mirada cosmopolita? No el amanecer de la confraternización general de los pueblos, ni los albores de la república universal, ni una mirada mundial que flotara libremente, ni el amor al otro por...
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.
In seinem Gedicht An die Nachgeborenen schreibt Bertolt Brecht: Was sind das fiir Zeiten, wo Ein Gesprach uber Baume fast ein Verbrechen ist Weil es ein Schweigen uber so viele Untaten einschliegt! An diesen Zeilen leuchtet exemplarisch ein Problem auf,...
This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world?s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters ? events that have shaken modern...
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...
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...
Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural...
Seit fast 30 Jahren der einzige von und für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer gemachte Taschenkalender für den Schulalltag. Kalenderium schuljahresbezogen von August 2005 bis Juli 2006.
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...
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...
This volume examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and aims to present a new vision for the future. The author begins by describing how the traditional work society is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be sudden...