Conversations with Ulrich Beck

Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich), Johannes Willms, Michael Pollack

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English

Polity Press
31 October 2003

Society & Social Sciences; Social theory

Series: Conversations

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 put him at the forefront of contemporary debates.

Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

By: Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich), Johannes Willms
Translated by: Michael Pollack
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9780745628240
ISBN 10: 0745628249
Series: Conversations
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 October 2003
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 that brought in a striking array of new topics. In effect it enabled people to speak of things, indeed in a way to “see” things, that they had been trying to speak of and to see, but the where the concepts had been chronically lacking."" John Urry, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University