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Gary J.

An extraordinary perspective on the place of environmental destruction in ...

Beoordeeld in Canada 🇨🇦 op 16 januari 2017

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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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Clarissa's Blog

Beck’s Last Book

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 7 juli 2016

The great German philosopher📃 Ulrich Beck died before completing this book. His wife and colleagues had to finish it based on the author’s notes and conversations. As a result, the book ended up being very repetitive. This is not necessarily a bad thing, though. If I had to choose a book by Beck to introduce students to his thinking, I’d pick this one because its repetitiveness will help Beck’s ideas really to get across.

Since the collapse of the nation-state model is inevitable, should we drag it out in order to soften the impact or should we accept the inevitable and move on? Ulrich Beck insists that we have no time to waste because the longer we hang on to the illusion that the nation-state is salvageable, the more time we waste instead of solving the problems of the new world order. The most pressing problems of today – climate change, for instance- will only begin to be addressed when we relinquish the nation-state illusions.

Ulrich Beck’s posthumously published volume is an impassioned plea for us to stop hiding from the erosion of the nation-state model behind right-wing fundamentalism, ultra nationalism or vapid fantasies about bringing back the good old times and to start creating structures of action and collaboration that will transcend the porous national borders just as easily as floods, hurricanes, radioactive clouds, viruses and terrorists do. We can’t allow the agents of our risk to travel faster and lighter than we do.

[📃In Europe, Beck is known as a sociologist, just like Zygmunt Bauman. But a sociologist in Europe is nothing like the useless idiots who call themselves sociologists in the US. Beck and Bauman are the world’s leading thinkers, philosophers, theorists of the nation-state and not the kind of pseudo scholars you can find in American departments of social sciences.]

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Bryan Newman

A lot deeper than I was hoping to get into the subject

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 27 juli 2016

This is a posthumous book from a German academic. It is dense, pedantic and rich in mind challenging philosophy. Basically everything I was not looking for in this book. I was looking for a far more mainstream book describing the changes of our world through climate change. I slogged through the first 30% of the book and had to abandon it, which is something I rarely do. I appreciate the level of thought and some of the passages. I often enjoy thought provoking books but just couldn't get into this.

The book is impressive, but beyond what I am looking for. Putting this review out there to make sure potential buyers know that they are getting into a deep and challenging read.

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Zipster Zeus

There is much to enjoy and chew over here

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 18 juni 2016

Beck's untimely death came as a bit of a shock to the European Intelligentsia and his loss is a critical one in the development of 21st century socio-political thought. His work has always been accessible and thought-provoking and the editors of this work- picking up a first draft and knocking it into publishable shape- have done a grand job at maintaining the tone and quality of thought Beck's other works have always entailed.

There is much to enjoy and chew over here as Beck considers social, economic and political change and charts how the globalised world of liberal capitalism is metamorphising and there are strong, underlying currents of change that even our leaders, increasingly ensconcing themselves as they are in Ivory Towers, are either unaware of, or, critically, unaware of but neither engaging themselves with the issues of change or worse, ignoring them.

If you either an established appreciator of Beck or new to his writing, you will not be disappointed by this fine, final work of his.

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Noah

A great book for thinkers or for your sociological research

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 13 juni 2016

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.

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 1 juni 2016

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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Things And Stuff

Fantastic book, very helpful and a niche subject.

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 18 juni 2016

Fantastic book, very helpful and a niche subject.

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