Ebook: Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

Contents -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- Introduction: The Immortality of Industrial Society and the Contents of this Book -- Part I: Dead Ends -- 1 Barbarism Modernized: The Eugenic Age -- The technology of creation: humans and nature off the drawing board? -- Giving progress the benefit of the doubt: the inequality of the burdens of proof -- Social consequences: will genetic techniques replace social policies? -- The human-genetic Dialectic of Enlightenment;Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.