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Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil / Nachrichten aus der Weltinnenpolitik
Revised and extended English edition in 2012
The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change.
Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local issues and react to people’s specific demands, but without a cosmopolitan outlook, such a reaction is likely to be...
Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local issues and react to people’s specific demands, but without a cosmopolitan outlook, such a reaction is likely to be...
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The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change.
Of course, it is necessary for political leaders to address local issues and react to people’s specific demands, but without a cosmopolitan outlook, such a reaction is likely to be inadequate. Ulrich Beck’s Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil is a demonstration of cosmopolitan politics in practice. It is more than a mirror: it is a magnifying glass that brings into focus the processes that are transforming our world and highlights the great challenges we face today.
»Global domestic politics«, the concept introduced and developed by Beck, is much more than a political theory, a philosophical utopia (or dystopia), a governance programme or a mental state: it is the reality of our times. Beck turns the argument that ‘global domestic politics’ is an unrealistic ideology on its head, arguing that it is the proponents of the national who are the idealists. They view reality through the obsolete lenses of the nation-state and thus cannot see the profound global changes that are transforming our reality. Global domestic politics is therefore a perspective, a political reality and a normative idea. And it is the critical theory of our times since it challenges the most profound truths which we hold dear: the truths of the nation.
»The book […] is very assertive and possesses something that might be described as intellectual anger.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»By the collection’s end, the questions that one glimpses at the beginning remain. But Beck has given them a distinctly stronger foundation. « pw-portal.de
»The book […] is very assertive and possesses something that might be described as intellectual anger.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»By the collection’s end, the questions that one glimpses at the beginning remain. But Beck has given them a distinctly stronger foundation. « pw-portal.de
»By the collection’s end, the questions that one glimpses at the beginning remain. But Beck has given them a distinctly stronger foundation. « pw-portal.de
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2010, 150 pages
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Ulrich Beck
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Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) was professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1992 to 2009 and Principal Investigator of the ERC project »Methodological Cosmopolitanism – In the Laboratory of Climate Change«. He was British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and a professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. Among numerous other accolades and honours, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Most Distinguished Contribution to Futures Research of the International Sociological Association at the 2017 World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama.
Ulrich Beck
Author
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) was professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1992 to 2009 and Principal Investigator of...
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Year of Publication: 2017
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2017
The Reinvention of Politics
Those who advocate ideas about "postmodernity" and "post-industrialism" offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2012
German Europe
In his famous speech in Hamburg in 1953, Thomas Mann warned the Germans never again to strive for a »German Europe«. As a result of the Euro crisis, however, that is exactly what has happened: the...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimYear of Publication: 2011
Distant Love
Family and love in the times of globalisation: The grandparents in Thessaloniki and their grandchildren in Cambridge speak to each other every night – via Skype. A woman in the US woman and...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2008
The Personal God
At the beginning of the 21st century the world’s religions are facing radical transformations. They exist simultaneously alongside one another and all the other cultural creations and...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2007
What is Globalisation?
This book introduces the impassabilites of the debate on globalisation in a trenchant and explanatory way – its polyvalence, its ambiguity, its (rarely differentiated) dimensions; it...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2007
World Risk Society
In 1986, the year of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, Suhrkamp Verlag published Risk Society by Ulrich Beck, a classic of sociological diagnostic, translated into over thirty...
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Year of Publication: 2005
Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimYear of Publication: 2005
The Normal Chaos of Love
This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2004
The Cosmopolitan Perspective or: War is Peace
In his book Power and Countervailing Power in the Global Age, Ulrich Beck analysed the question and the dilemma of the legitimity of power in the global era. In his new publication, he...
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Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich Beck, Edgar GrandeYear of Publication: 2004
Cosmopolitan Europe
Rethinking Europe – that is the theme of this book. The cosmopolitan view on Europe, conceived in notions, could well be the starting point for new action opportunities.
This book...
This book...
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Year of Publication: 2002
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2002
Power in the Global Age
This brilliant [...] 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...
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Year of Publication: 1986
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 1986
Risk Society
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic.
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the »risk society«. The changing nature of...
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