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Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a a traditiona to itself? What if its own necessities, functional principles and fundamental concepts are undermined, broken up and demystified with the same ruthlessness as were the supposedly eternal truths of earlier epochs? These questions are the focus of Ulrich Becka s Democracy without Enemies. The conflict of the future, he argues, will no longer be between East and West, between communism and capitalism, but between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary modernization and those that are attempting to relativize and reform the project of modernity self--critically, based on their experience of it. The conflict of the future will be between the two modernities which will battle over the compatibility of survival and human rights for all citizens of the earth.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Democracy without Enemies
• Author: Ulrich Beck
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9780745618234
• ISBN: 0745618235
• ID: 04907801
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 151 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. June 1998

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