Democracy without EnemiesISBN: 978-0-7456-1823-4
Paperback
200 pages
August 1998, Polity
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"Another chef d'oeuvre from Beck - simultaneously a bold
overview and a most detailed map of the world we have made and are
made by. And the fullest to-date presentation of the idea of
"second modernity": that of the pressures to rationalize the
effects of rationalization which will dominate our individual and
collective concerns and efforts for the years to come. A supreme
exercise in restoring to view the lost link between biography and
history, individual life and its global setting: an essential
reading for everyone trying to see form and logic in the
increasingly confused and shapeless experience." Zygmunt Bauman,
University of Leeds
"The state without enemies is a step already on the way to the global risk society of what Beck calls our "second modernity". This book has raised - among scholars and politicians - considerable controversy in Germany, and will no doubt do so in the English-speaking world." Scott Lash, Lancaster University