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World at Risk Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Ulrich Beck
- New
- Hardcover
Description
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Details
- Title World at Risk
- Author Ulrich Beck
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2009-02-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745642000
- ISBN 9780745642000 / 0745642004
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Political
- Dewey Decimal Code 302
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From the rear cover
A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality.
However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics'.
World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.