Reinvention of Politics
Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order
(Sprache: Englisch)
An important new book arguing for a new model of politics for our times.
Beck s previous books, including The Risk Society , have been highly influential.
Also offers practical suggestions and well-chosen empirical material.
Beck s previous books, including The Risk Society , have been highly influential.
Also offers practical suggestions and well-chosen empirical material.
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An important new book arguing for a new model of politics for our times.
Beck s previous books, including The Risk Society , have been highly influential.
Also offers practical suggestions and well-chosen empirical material.
Beck s previous books, including The Risk Society , have been highly influential.
Also offers practical suggestions and well-chosen empirical material.
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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 institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social democracy, the welfare state, trade unionism, and social classes as agents of change, but once these have been thrown into crisis what other institutions do we have to depend on?The Reinvention of Politics, suggests we should think again about forging a new model of politics for our times. An active, devolved civil society, Beck argues, can sustain the claim that modernity is inherently democratic. For many issues now - for example, those involving technology, environment protest, the family, or gender relations - belong to the domain of what the author calls "subpolitics".
The postmodern critique of modernity, in Beck s view, is based on mistaken generalizations about a transitional phase in the evolution of modern society. What is needed, he argues, is the reinvention of politics, corresponding to th new demands of a society which remains modern, but which has progressed beyond the earlier form of industrial society.
This book will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the fields of social and political theory, sociology and political science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Reinvention of Politics “
Introduction.1. The Age of Side Effects: On the Politicization of Modernity.
2. The Construction of the Other Side of Modernity: Counter-modernization.
3. Subpolitics - The Individual Returns to Society.
4. Ways to Alternative Modernities.
5. The Reinvention of Politics.
6. The Art of Doubt.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck wurde 1944 in Stolp in Hinterpommern geboren. Nach seinem Studium der Soziologie, Philosophie, Psychologie und Politikwissenschaft in München promovierte er dort im Jahr 1972. Sieben Jahre später wurde er im Fach Soziologie habilitiert. Sein wissenschaftliches Hauptinteresse galt dem Grundlagenwandel moderner Gesellschaften, insbesondere im Zeichen der Globalisierung. Er beschäftigte sich mit den daraus erwachsenden theoretischen, empirischen und methodologischen Fragen sowie den Konsequenzen und Risiken, die dieser Wandel für Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur und Massenmedien nach sich zieht.Seit 1980 war Ulrich Beck Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Soziale Welt". Ihm wurden mehrere Ehrendoktorwürden europäischer Universitäten und zahlreiche Preise verliehen. Ulrich Beck verstarb im Januar 2015.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ulrich Beck
- 1996, 216 Seiten, Maße: 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 0745617581
- ISBN-13: 9780745617589
Sprache:
Englisch
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