Ulrich Beck
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 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.
PUBLICATIONS
The Reinvention of Politics
English world rights (Polity), Turkey (Ithaki)
Previously published in the respective language/territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Fondo De Cultura Economica), Chinese simplex rights (Xue Lin Press), Italy (Asterios Editore), Sweden (Bokförlaget Daidalos), Korea (Keorum Publishing), Czech Republic (Slon Publishers), Croatia (Jesenski i Turk), Greece (Livani Publishing House),
German Europe
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Tongji UP), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Paz e Terra), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Autrement), Italy (Laterza), Norway (Abstrakt), Korea (Dolbegae), Japan (Iwanami), Poland (PWN), Czech Republic (Filosofia), Hungary (Belvedere Meridoniale), Bulgaria (K&X), Serbia (Megatrend University), Greece (Patakis)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Portugal (Ediçoes 70)
Distant Love
English world rights (Polity), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), Poland (PWN), Czech Republic (Slon), Hungary (Belvedere Meridionale)
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Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Korea (Dodo), Japan (Hosei UP), Albania (Asdreni)
The Personal God
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Tempo Brasileiro), Italy (Laterza), Korea (Ghil), Japan (Iwanami Shoten), Czech Republic (Karolinum Press), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba)
What is Globalisation?
English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Catalan rights (Llibres de l'Index), Chinese complex rights (Commercial Press), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), Italy (Carocci), Japan (Kokubunsha)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Russia (Progress Traditija), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Paz e Terra), Sweden (Daidalos), Norway (Abstrakt), Finnland (Vastapaino), Czech Republic (CDK Brno), Slovakia (Vydavatelstvo SSS), Hungary (Belvedere Meridionale), Bulgaria (Critique & Humanism), Romania (Editura Trei), Croatia (Vizura), Slovenia (Krtina), Greece (Kastaniotis), Macedonia (Terra Magika), Georgia (Elf)
World Risk Society
Portuguese rights (Edicoes 70), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Ghil), Turkey (Sakarya)
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The Normal Chaos of Love
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (Folio), Chinese complex rights (New Century), Brazil (Vozes), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Saemulgyul), Poland (Lower Silesia Press), Slovenia (Ljubljana UP), Greece (Pedio)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Turkey (Imge)
Cosmopolitan Europe
This book...
English world rights (Polity), Sweden (Daidalos), Poland (Scholar), Serbia (Megatrend UP), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), France (Flamarion), Croatia (Skolska Knjiga)
The Cosmopolitan Perspective or: War is Peace
English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Russia (Centre for Post-Industrial Studies), France (Flammarion), Italy (Carocci), Sweden (Daidalos), Serbia (Megatrend University)
Power in the Global Age
English world rights (Polity Press), Denmark (Reitzels)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing BBT), Russia (Progress Traditija), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), France (Flammarion), Italy (Laterza), Korea (Ghil), Japan (NTT Shuppan), Poland (Scholar), Czech Republic (Slon), Croatia (Skolska Knjiga), Ukraine (Nika Center)
Liberty or Capitalism
English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Zhejiang Peoples), Chinese complex rights (Prophet Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Italy (Carocci), Korea (Saemulglyl), Denmark (Reitzels), Greece (Kastaniotis)
Children of Freedom
Together with Anthoy Giddens' Beyond Left and Right, Ulrich Beck's new book launches the series Second Modernity, of which he is editor. Beck is concerned in this study with...
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Economica)
Risk Society
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the »risk society«. The changing nature of society's...
English world rights (Sage), Spanish world rights (Paidós Ibérica), Chinese simplex rights (Yilin), Chinese complex rights (Chu Liu), Russia (Progress), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora 34), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), France (Flammarion), Italy (Carocci), Denmark (Reitzels), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Scholar), Czech Republic (Karolinum), Hungary (Szazadveg), Bulgaria (Critique&Humanism), Estonia (Tartu UP), Serbia (Filip Visnjic), Slovenia (Krtina), Turkey (Ithaki), Greece (Pedio)