The metamorphosis of the world : how climate change is transforming our concept of the world / Ulrich Beck.

By:

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015 [author.]

Material type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780745690216 (hardback)
9780745690223 (pbk.)

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LOC classification:

HM 856 B388 2016

Contents:

Contents: • Part I – Introduction, Evidence, Theory 1. Why Metamorphosis of the World, Why Not Transformation? 2. Being God 3. How Climate Change Might Save the World 4. Theorizing Metamorphosis • Part II - Themes 5. From Class to Risk-Class: Inequality in Times of Metamorphosis 6. Where Does the Power Go? Politics of Invisibility 7. Emancipatory Catastrophism: Common Goods as Side Effects of Bads 8. Public Bads: Politics of Visibility 9. Digital Risk: The Failure of Functioning Institutions 10. Meta-Power Game of Politics: Metamorphosis of the Nation and International Relations 11. Cosmopolitan Communities of Risk: From United Nations to United Cities • Part III – Outlook 12. Global Risk Generations: United in Decline

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	Circulation Books		PBTS Library			HM 856 B388 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available	purchased from forefront		45147

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Part I – Introduction, Evidence, Theory
1. Why Metamorphosis of the World, Why Not Transformation?
2. Being God
3. How Climate Change Might Save the World
4. Theorizing Metamorphosis

• Part II - Themes
5. From Class to Risk-Class: Inequality in Times of Metamorphosis
6. Where Does the Power Go? Politics of Invisibility
7. Emancipatory Catastrophism: Common Goods as Side Effects of Bads
8. Public Bads: Politics of Visibility
9. Digital Risk: The Failure of Functioning Institutions
10. Meta-Power Game of Politics: Metamorphosis of the Nation and International Relations
11. Cosmopolitan Communities of Risk: From United Nations to United Cities

• Part III – Outlook
12. Global Risk Generations: United in Decline

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