Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
