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Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today.

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.

The euro crisis is fracturing Europe, revealing how the fundamental principles of democracy are being undermined. As the crisis unfolds, parliaments, governments, and EU institutions are being bypassed, leading to a shift from multilateralism to unilateralism, and from equality to hegemony. Even France, once a dominant force in European integration, now finds itself constrained by Berlin's demands due to concerns over its credit rating. This shift has fundamentally altered the power dynamics in Europe, giving rise to a "German Europe." Germany did not actively seek this leadership role; rather, it emerged as an unintended consequence of the euro's creation, which was intended to bind Germany within a more integrated Europe. Instead, the euro has benefitted Germany economically, elevating Chancellor Angela Merkel to a position of informal leadership in Europe. The new power dynamics reflect the divide between creditor and debtor nations, driven by an economic rather than military logic. This situation is rooted in a form of "German euro nationalism," which is reshaping European identity. The current EU model, based on fear of chaos, is unsustainable. For Europe to thrive, it must foster a positive vision that empowers citizens and encourages grassroots engagement, allowing ordinary Europeans to unite and act on their own behalf.

The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society , a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance.

In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly. Contrasting a ‘cosmopolitan vision’ or ‘outlook’ sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressive impacts of globalization with the ‘national outlook’ neurotically fixated on the familiar reference points of a world of nations-states-borders, sovereignty, exclusive identities-Beck shows how even opponents of globalization and cosmopolitanism are trapped by the logic of reflexive modernization into promoting the very processes they are opposing. A persistent theme running through the book is the attempt to recover an authentically European tradition of cosmopolitan openness to otherness and tolerance of difference. What Europe needs, Beck argues, is the courage to unite forms of life which have grown out of language, skin colour, nationality or religion with awareness that, in a radically insecure world, all are equal and everyone is different.

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

Focusing on the politics of the risk society, the author argues that ecological issues represent a systematic violation of fundamental civil rights. He posits that the ecological conflict has emerged as a successor to the industrial conflict, highlighting the political and sociological implications of environmental challenges. This examination delves into the intersection of ecology and civil rights, framing the ecological crisis as a critical political issue in contemporary society.

In this important book, Ulrich Beck -- one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today -- examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. schovat popis

Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.