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Author Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.

Title Ecological enlightenment : essays on the politics of the risk society / Ulrich Beck ; translated by Mark A. Ritter
Published Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1995

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Description v, 159 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Politics in Risk Society -- 2. Survival Issues, Social Structure, and Ecological Enlightenment -- 3. On the Mortality of Industrial Society -- 4. Anthropological Shock: Chernobyl and the Contours of the Risk Society -- 5. We Fatalists: In the Labyrinth of Risk Society -- 6. Science and Security -- 7. Eugenics of the Future -- 8. The World as Laboratory -- 9. Blind Realism: Sociology and the Crises of Industrial Modernity -- 10. Sociology and the Ecological Issue -- 11. The Conflict of Two Modernities -- 12. The Unfinished Democracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental degradation.
Industries -- Environmental aspects.
Progress.
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Author Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.
LC no. 93001682
ISBN 0391038311 (cloth)
039103832X (paper)
Other Titles Politik in der Risikogesellschaft. English