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Conversations with Ulrich Beck
Beck, Ulrich; Willms, Johannes
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Description for Conversations with Ulrich Beck
* 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. Translator(s): Pollack, Michael. Series: Polity Conversations Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
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.
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, 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 ... Read more
- Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Polity Conversations Series
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745628233
SKU
V9780745628233
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99-15
About Beck, Ulrich; Willms, Johannes
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Johannes Willms is a journalist and writer.
Reviews for Conversations with Ulrich Beck
"Every now and then a new way of thinking about the social world occurs. And once that happens it is difficult to imagine how sociology had managed without that new way of thinking. ….Ulrich Beck’s concept of risk society …was a kind of revelation. It provided for sociology a way of speaking of the physical world and of its risks ... Read more