Democracy Without Enemies - Couverture souple

Beck, Ulrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745618235 ISBN 13 : 9780745618234

Editeur : Polity Press, 1998

Synopsis

Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a 'tradition' to itself? What if its own necessities, functional principles and fundamental concepts are undermined, broken up and demystified with the same ruthlessness as were the supposedly eternal truths of earlier epochs?


These questions are the focus of Ulrich Beck's Democracy without Enemies. The conflict of the future, he argues, will no longer be between East and West, between communism and capitalism, but between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary modernization and those that are attempting to relativize and reform the project of modernity self-critically, based on their experience of it. The conflict of the future will be between the two modernities which will battle over the compatibility of survival and human rights for all citizens of the earth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745618235
• ISBN 13: 9780745618234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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