Ecological Enlightenment by Ulrich Beck University Of Munich
Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalized violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict.One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavored to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.Ulrich Beck is a sociology professor at Munich University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor of Sociology at the University of Erlangen, Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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| ISBN 13 | 9781573923989 |
| ISBN 10 | 1573923982 |
| Title | Ecological Enlightenment |
| Author | Ulrich Beck |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prometheus Books |
| Year published | 1995-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 165 |
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