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The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Digitaal – 2 september 2016

Engelstalige uitgave Ulrich Beck (Auteur)

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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present.
Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it.
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook.

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240 pagina's
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Polity
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2 september 2016
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0745690254
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978-0745690254
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'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive – indeed complete – description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.'
―Zygmunt Bauman

'This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after – transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.'
―Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.'
―Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

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'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive - indeed complete - description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.?
Zygmunt Bauman

?This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after ? transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.?
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.'
Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Uitgever ‏ : ‎ Polity; 1. editie (2 september 2016)
Taal ‏ : ‎ Engels
Digitaal ‏ : ‎ 240 pagina's
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0745690254
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0745690254

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An extraordinary perspective on the place of environmental destruction in post-modern society. Beck says it is here and a necessary ingredient in the neo-liberal economic paradigm - Environmental destruction is part of our way of doing business, eg oil. What then are we to do?

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Ulrich Beck was Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His sociological text, "The Metamorphosis of the World" was incomplete and in preliminary manuscript form only at the the of his sudden death from a heart attack in early 2015. His partner, Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim, has worked with Beck's former colleagues and collaborators, Anders Blok (Copenhagen) and Sabine Selchow (London) to bring the work to publishable form for Polity Press.

The book's main topic is a proposed remodelling of the way sociologists need to think of and analyse the modern world if they are to make sense of the way it now functions; that the mode of change into which the world has now entered should no longer be viewed in conventional sociological terms of transformational, revolutionary or evolutionary but rather as metamorphosis -- the author's suggested term for a world undergoing complicated spontaneous (and irreversible) emergence into something new, unknown and unplanned. This change is not the result of deliberate policy or design anywhere, but rather arises as a consequences of undesirable side-effects of the progress of modernity; side-effects (such as climate change) that operate on a global scale and which render obsolete political action and thinking within traditional national boundaries, creating "risk societies" across national and class boundaries and calling into question the legitimacy of nation-state political decision-making.

The book's main intended audience would appear to be principally sociologists themselves, rather than the general public, for whom many of the finer points of the author's argument will be lost, obscured by the opaque and impenetrably precise technical language which the author employs (and not helped by the fact that much of that language is clearly influenced by Beck's German language heritage). That said, however, there remain many revelatory ideas for the lay reader within this volume's 200 pages and anyone prepared to invest the effort in reading it should be well rewarded with much to ponder, not just with regard to the politics of global climate change, but also with regard to digital communities, the politics of invisibility, empowering of the younger generation, the emerging promise of a world of great equality and the power struggles that are likely to arise, as nation-states lose their legitimacy and world cities emerge to become the principal power-houses for global change in the way people view the world and their relationship with it.

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Emily - London

There are theoretical nuggets here

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This book opens with drama - the author collapses dead in front of his partner, and his colleague and partner complete what had only been a first draft.

Beck is someone who naturally takes a European theoretical and rhetorical approach in his writing rather than the traditional English empirical and factual style - so it is pretty heavy going. As one reviewer put it, Beck is 'having a debate with himself'. Nevertheless there are nuggets here - striking visual and conceptual metaphors that help you think about the world.

Focusing on his discussion of climate change as one example of metamorphosis, he sees our changing perception of the world as a 'Copernican Turn 2' - the world picture which claimed that the sun was turning round the world always was false, but our perceptions are completely transformed when this becomes our new reality. The realisation of the extent of climate change and what is causing it, completely alters our perception of what is driving history and what is happening around us. "The world is not circulating round the nation, but the nations are circulating around the new fixed stars: 'world' and 'humanity'." The world view growing out of the imperialist Victorian era - that we are masters of the world is reversed, and international action becomes a matter of survival in the world.

He also usefully distinguishes between 'doctrines' and 'spaces of action' - what people think and what they actually do. "Doctrines can be particular and minority-oriented eg anti-cosmopolitan, anti-European, religiously fundamental, ethnic, racist; paces of action on the contrary, are inevitably constituted in a cosmopolitan way. The anti-Europeans actually sit in the European Parliament (otherwise they don't matter at all). The religious anti-modernist fundamentalists celebrate the beheadings of their western hostages on .... digital media platforms ..." Even immobile people are cosmopolitanised because increasingly they have access to knowledge through their mobile phones. result - some of them migrate.

"In sum, metamorphosis is not social change, not transformation, not evolution, not revolution and not crisis. It is a mode of changing the nature of human existence. It signifies the age of side effects. "It shifts us from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' because of our interconnectedness and changed awareness of our interconnected dependency on nature.

But after this good start, on climate change the author lapses into a disguised optimism - that the metamorphosis of the world will in the end force international action or catastrophe.

He sees rising sea levels and shifting climate patterns as creating "new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation states and social classes but elevations above sea or river. This is a totally different way of conceptualising the world and our chances of survival within it."

He says "climate change produces a basis sense of ethical and existential violation that creates new norms". It is as dramatic as the catastrophe of the second world war and of Nazism - which produced a never-again reaction and the human rights movement.

"The insight that no nation state can cope alone with the global risk of climate change has become common sense." But he underplays the extent to which the climate inequalities mirror the old inequalities - that drought will affect sub Saharan Africa more than it will affect Europe, that richer nations have greater ability to protect themselves against flooding.

"Climate change could be made into an antidote to war" but economic collapse and mass migration could also precipitate war.

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Noah

A great book for thinkers or for your sociological research

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This handsome grey hardback with red boards inside is presented in a highly contrasting white sleeve. Text is a readable size business font on a wonderfully white background.
I am so pleased that this book was written because is stands as a testament to the mind and work of Ulrich Beck. An unfinished and unedited version was sent to the publishers a few days before he died unexpectedly of a heart attack, whereupon colleagues have polished it into what it is now - an excellent memorial and a brilliant stand alone discussion of the idea of metamorphosis. It is a world we don't understand anymore, a world that is changing so substantially that we can no longer refer to it as change or even transformation but rather metamorphosis - because what it is becoming is nothing like what it was! he talks of the risks felt by society, the politics of visibility and invisibility, inequality and the good side effects of bad things. This work denotes the thinking of a great mind, discussions between sociologists and it will stretch your own thinking to consider potential outcomes.
This book ends with a really good bibliography which will stimulate further reading or perhaps a little research of your own

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mr_ska

Does what some of the very best sociological works do, it makes you see the world afresh from a new perspective.

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Let's split the audience for this book into two. We have the sociologists, and we have the general public. The two audiences will get different but overlapping things from the book.

The general public don't read all that many books written by sociologists. There are many reasons for that, but not least is that a significant proportion of sociological works are written in convoluted language. Language that makes the work hard to follow and less than enjoyable to read. The Metamorphosis of the World scores well here in that nearly all of it is written in very accessible plain English, and the way it is structured (e.g. split into parts and subdivided) makes it quite easy to read. Where the book also scores highly is in creating those moments that delight the reader by revealing a totally different way of looking at the world than they are used to. For that if nothing else the book is worth the full five stars.

For the sociology audience there is much to sink the teeth into. Many moments of chains of semiosis being fired off. Many models checked through and compared to what Beck presents. Many questions raised. We get to ponder (and perhaps raise a smile) at the thought of reconfiguring Marx and Hegel from economic determinism and the role of ideas in shaping history (dialectics as shaped by human activity) to the effects of climate change on the environment shaping history. A bold and grand step by Beck. We get to compare and contrast the likes of Bauman's notions on (liquid) modernity with Beck's model of complete transformation. Much to keep us busy. Assuming many of us read it and then engage in conversation with the ghost of Beck... The Metamorphosis of The World is a splending farewell to Ulrich Beck.

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