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Democracy without Enemies

Democracy without Enemies Paperback / softback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by Ulrich Beck

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
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  • Title Democracy without Enemies
  • Author Ulrich Beck
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
  • Date 1998-08-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780745618234
  • ISBN 9780745618234 / 0745618235
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.01 x 0.6 in (22.91 x 15.27 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Modern, Civil society
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98006186
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.809

From the rear cover

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 argues, will no longer be between East and West, between communism and capitalism, but between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary modernization and those that are attempting to relativize and reform the project of modernity self-critically, based on their experience of it. The conflict of the future will be between the two modernities which will battle over the compatibility of survival and human rights for all citizens of the earth.

About the author

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich