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World Risk Society

On the Search for Lost Security
Suhrkamp | Insel
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World Risk Society / Weltrisikogesellschaft
On the Search for Lost Security
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 languages. In 1999, World Risk Society has been published in English by Polity Press. Much has happened since then, our understanding of global risks and our attention have increased considerably.


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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 languages. In 1999, World Risk Society has been published in English by Polity Press. Much has happened since then, our understanding of global risks and our attention have increased considerably.


World Risk Society: On the Search for Lost Security reflects this process. It is the potentialities of the World Risk Society, destructive and constructive, that Beck explores in his new international bestseller.

The scope of global danger in the Risk Society of the eighties seems idyllic in comparison to the present: The RAF terrorists seem »homey« alongside the world-wide presence of al-Qaida, the current financial crises that are devastating lives, and the fact that even economists are starting to see that a massive ecological catastrophe is hardly some science fiction future.

Risks today have the destructive power of wars and occur in every field. New to the World Risk Society is the manipulation of the appearance of risk for political gain. The result: fear becomes a part of daily existence. Security supercedes freedom and equality. Despite this, Ulrich Beck is anything but an alarmist; the anticipation of catastrophe is changing international politics fundamentally. It is creating a new common consciousness of the possibilities of a »cosmopolitan political realism«.

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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 (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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The Reinvention of Politics
Year of Publication: 2017
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2017
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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German Europe
Year of Publication: 2012
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2012
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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Distant Love
Year of Publication: 2011
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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Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
Year of Publication: 2010
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2010
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...
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The Personal God
Year of Publication: 2008
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2008
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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What is Globalisation?
Year of Publication: 2007
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2007
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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The Normal Chaos of Love
Year of Publication: 2005
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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Cosmopolitan Europe
Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich Beck, Edgar GrandeYear of Publication: 2004
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...
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The Cosmopolitan Perspective or: War is Peace
Year of Publication: 2004
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2004
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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Power in the Global Age
Year of Publication: 2002
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 2002
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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Risk Society
Year of Publication: 1986
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 1986
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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