Johannes Willms & Ulrich Beck 
Conversations with Ulrich Beck 

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms
engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and
explore the key elements in Beck’s thought.

* * Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential
contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a
series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms.

* These conversations shed new light onto the major themes in
Beck’s work and provide an insight into some of the
commitments and beliefs that they rest upon.

* Includes new thinking on the risk society and on globalisation,
themes that have put him at the forefront of contemporary
debates.

* Witten in a clear and lucid way and thus ideal for anyone
seeking to come to grips with Beck’s work.

Table of Content

Introduction: Thinking Society Anew (John Urry).

1. Post modernity or the second modernity.

2. Individualisation.

3. Global risk society.

4. Labour society and regime of risk.

5. Cosmopolitan society and its enemies.

6. The prospects for a second enlightenment.

Recommended literature for further reading.

Selected Works by Authors Cited in the Text.

Books by the Authors in English.

About the Authors.

Index.

About the author

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the
Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

Johannes Willms is a journalist and writer.