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Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk 1

2 Relations of Defi nition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is Not a Risk? 24

'A fascinating examination of the risk society of thetwenty-first century. Ulrich Beck details the new world order whereterrorism and global climate change haunt our. Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include: Conversations with Ulrich Beck (2004); What is. (2000); World Risk Society (1999); The Reinvention of. Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the. The Terrorist Threat. World Risk Society Revisited. DOES 11TH September stand for something new in history? There is one central aspect for which this is true: 11th September stands for the complete collapse of language. Ever since that moment, we've been living and thinking and acting using concepts that.

3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment 47

4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception 67

5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real is Catastrophic Climate Change? 81

6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism Concerning Progress 109

7 Knowledge or Non-Knowing? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' 115

8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism 129

9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence 140

10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards Must be Studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism 160

11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society 187

12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity 212

Notes 235

References and Bibliography 243

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Index 261