Conversations with Ulrich Beck - Softcover

Beck, Ulrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745628249 ISBN 13: 9780745628240

Publisher: Polity, 2004

Synopsis

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

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• Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.
  
• These conversations shed new light onto the major themes in Beck’s work and provide an insight into some of the commitments and beliefs that they rest upon.
  
• Includes new thinking on the risk society and on globalisation, themes that have put him at the forefront of contemporary debates.
  
• Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

Ulrich Beck is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers. His work on risk society and his more recent writings on globalization and individualization have put him at the forefront of contemporary debates. These conversations succeed in shedding new light on these major themes as well as providing an insight into some of the commitments and beliefs that underlie them.

This new book presents Beck’s ideas in an extremely clear and lucid manner, and is thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

About the Author:

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

Johannes Willms is a journalist and writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0745628249
• ISBN 13: 9780745628240
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240