This important book by one of Europe's leading social and political
theorists draws together key essays which argue that a new frame of
reference is needed to understand the world risk society in which
we live today. Beck focuses on ecological and technological
questions of risk, and their sociological and political
implications. In doing so, he discusses and answers some of the
criticisms provoked by his earlier and much cited work on risk
society.
Beck argues that we now have an "earth politics" which we did not
have some years ago, and that it can be understood in terms of the
dynamics and contradictions of a world risk society. It poses
questions such as: What is the environment? What is nature? What is
wilderness? What is human? Questions which have to be reposed and
reconsidered in a transnational setting, even if the answers are
elusive.
These essays form the basis of Beck's "Cosmopolitan Manifesto"
which addresses the dialectic of global and local questions which
do not fit into national politics. By recognizing that diversity,
individualism and scepticism are written into our culture, we can
form the basis of a new social cohesion, a new cosmopolitanism in
which the creative uncertainty of freedom replaces the hierarchical
certainty of difference. Beck encourages political experimentation
to form a global morality of shared risk which could shape powerful
cosmopolitan movements in the future.
This book is an important text for students and scholars in
sociology and politics. It will also be read by a wider audience
interested in the key social and political questions of our
time.
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