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Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

Ulrich Beck, Amos Weisz (Translated by)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1377-2
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224 pages
August 1995, Polity
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Translator's Note.

Preface.

Introduction: The Immortality of Industrial Society and the Contents of the Book.

Part I: Dead Ends.

1. Barbarism Modernised: The Eugenic Age.

2. The Naturalistic Misunderstanding of the Ecological Movement: Environmental Critique as Social Critique.

3. Industrial Fatalism: Organised Irresponsibility.

Part II: Antidotes.

4. The Self-Refutation of Bureaucracy: The Victory of Industralism over Itself.

5. Implementation as Abolition of Technocracy: The Logic of Relativistic Science.

6. The "Poisoned Cake": Capital and Labour in Risk Society.

7. Conflicts over Progress: The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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