Электронная книга: Ulrich Beck «German Europe»
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The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of other nations. Even France, which long dominated European integration, must submit to Berlin’s strictures now that it must fear for its international credit rating. How did this happen? The anticipation of the European catastrophe has already fundamentally changed the European landscape of power. It is giving birth to a political monster: a German Europe. Germany did not seek this leadership position – rather, it is a perfect illustration of the law of unintended consequences. The invention and implementation of the euro was the price demanded by France in order to pin Germany down to a European Monetary Union in the context of German unification. It was a quid pro quo for binding a united Germany into a more integrated Europe in which France would continue to play the leading role. But the precise opposite has happened. Economically the euro turned out to be very good for Germany, and with the euro crisis Chancellor Angela Merkel became the informal Queen of Europe. The new grammar of power reflects the difference between creditor and debtor countries; it is not a military but an economic logic. Its ideological foundation is ‘German euro nationalism’ – that is, an extended European version of the Deutschmark nationalism that underpinned German identity after the Second World War. In this way the German model of stability is being surreptitiously elevated into the guiding idea for Europe. The Europe we have now will not be able to survive in the risk-laden storms of the globalized world. The EU has to be more than a grim marriage sustained by the fear of the chaos that would be caused by its breakdown. It has to be built on something more positive: a vision of rebuilding Europe bottom-up, creating a Europe of the citizen. There is no better way to reinvigorate Europe than through the coming together of ordinary Europeans acting on their own behalf. Издательство: "John Wiley&Sons Limited (USD)"
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Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck (born May 15, 1944) is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.
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Life
Beck was born in the Pomeranian town of Stolp, Germany (now Słupsk in Poland) in 1944. From 1966 onwards he studied sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science at Munich University. In 1972 he left as a Doctor of Philosophy and worked as a sociologist at Munich University. In 1979 he qualified as a university lecturer. He was professor at the universities of Münster (1979-1981) and Bamberg (1981-1992). Since 1992 Beck has been professor for sociology and director of the Institute for Sociology of Munich University. He is also the British Journal of Sociology Professor at the London School of Economics. He has received many international prizes and honors.
From 1995-1997 Beck was a member of the Kommission für Zukunftsfragen der Freistaaten Bayern und Sachsen (Commission for Future Questions of the Free States of Bavaria and Saxony). Since 1999 he has been the speaker of the DFG research programme on Reflexive Modernity.
He is married to the German social scientist Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
Interests
Beck currently studies modernization, ecological problems, individualization, and globalization. Recently he has also embarked on exploring the changing conditions of work in a world of increasing global capitalism, declining influence of unions, and flexibilisation of the labor process, a new theory rooted in the concept of cosmopolitanism. Beck has also contributed a number of new words in German sociology, including "risk society", "second modernity", reflexive modernization and brazilianization (Brasilianisierung).
The Spinelli Group
On 15 September, 2010 Beck supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the effort to federalise the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok.
Works
Beck is the editor of the sociological journal Soziale Welt (since 1980), the author of some 150 articles, and the author or editor of many books, for example:
- Risikogesellschaft - Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (1986) de:Risikogesellschaft (Risk Society)
- Beck, Ulrich (1988) Gegengifte : die organisierte Unverantwortlichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
- Beck, Ulrich (1992) Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage
- Riskante Freiheiten - Gesellschaftliche Individualisierungsprozesse in der Moderne (1994, editor together with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim)
- Beck, Ulrich & Giddens, Anthony & Lash Scott (1994) Reflexive Modernization.Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Eigenes Leben - Ausflüge in die unbekannte Gesellschaft, in der wir leben (1995, together with W. Vossenkuhl and U. E. Ziegler, photographs by T. Rautert)
- Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth & Beck, Ulrich (1995) The Normal Chaos of Love. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1995) Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1996) The Reinvention of Politics.Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Was ist Globalisierung? (1997)
- Beck, Ulrich (1998) Democracy without Enemies. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1998) World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1999) What Is Globalization?. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2000) The Brave New World of Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Adam, Barbara & Beck, Ulrich & Van Loon, Joost (2000) The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory. London: Sage.
- Beck, Ulrich & Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (2002) Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences. London: Sage.
- Beck, Ulrich & Willms, Johannes (2003) Conversations with Ulrich Beck. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2005) Power in the Global Age. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2006) Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, U., & Edgar, G. (2007). Cosmopolitan Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich. (2008). World at Risk. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich & Grande, Edgar (2010) "Varieties of second modernity: extra-European and European experiences and perspectives" British Journal of Sociology, Vol 61, Issue 3, Pages 406-638.
See also
External links
- Professor Ulrich Beck - his staff page at the LSE
- Homepage of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck (German)
- Unofficial Ulrich Beck trading card at theorycards.org
- Ideas radio show, discusses Ulrich's concepts of risk in science and society
- New media artwork inspired by Ulrich Beck's work, created by eco-art collaborative EcoArtTech
- Interview with Ulrich Beck:“Nationalism does not leave much room for the recognition of others”, Barcelona Metropolis, 2009.
- 1944 births
- Living people
- People from Słupsk
- German sociologists
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- People from the Province of Pomerania
- Studienstiftung alumni
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty
- University of Münster faculty
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