1. Demokrasi

Indeks : Index ; Bibliografi ; Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worls of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constrtains of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a ?tradition? to itself? What if its own necessities, functional concepts are undermined, broken up and demystified with the same ruthlessness as were supposedly eternal truths of earlier epochs? These questions are the focus of Ulrich Beck?s new book. The conflict of the future, he argues, will no longer be between Wast and West, between communism and capitalism, but between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary modernozation and those that are attempting to relativize and reform the project of modernity self-critically, based of their experience of it. The conflict of the future will be between two modernities which will battle over the compatibility of survival and human rights for all citizens of the world. This book will appeal to students and academics in both sosiology and politics.