Metamorphosis of the World

by Ulrich Beck

Book Overview

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745690211
• ISBN13: 9780745690216
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"