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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 the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present.
Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it.
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook.
- Sales Rank: #588189 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-18
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.80" h x 1.00" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 200 pages
Review
'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive - indeed complete - description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.?
Zygmunt Bauman
?This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after ? transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.?
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.'
Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
Review
'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive - indeed complete - description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.?
Zygmunt Bauman
?This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after ? transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.?
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.'
Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
About the Author
Ulrich Beck 1944-2015) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and the LSE and one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A difficult and demanding work that challenges us to answer the question: What world are we actually living in?
By Russell Fanelli
Sadly, the German sociologist Ulrich Beck died on January 1, 2015, before he could finish his new book, The Metamorphosis of the World. In the Forward of the book, his wife Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim, a noted sociologist in her own right, says that she had enough of her husband's notes and with help from colleagues and editors was able to complete Beck’s important work.
For my readers it is important to note that The Metamorphosis of the World is a scholarly work a general audience will find challenging to read. That is not to say that I don’t recommend it for a general audience, for Beck gives us enough help to understand the complicated problems involved in rethinking change in the modern world, particularly change brought about by climate change. This is a difficult and demanding work that requires close and careful attention.
Beck does not leave us in doubt about his mission and purpose. He tells us immediately that “The world is unhinged…. And it has gone mad.” He asks the question, “What world are we actually living in?” His answer is: “in the metamorphosis of the world.”
When most of my readers think of metamorphosis, the lowly caterpillar turning into the magnificent butterfly is what immediately comes to mind. Perhaps more appropriate for Beck’s book is the transformation of Gregor Samsa from a human being into a bug in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. One thing is certain; we can expect Beck to show us that we can expect changes in our world that will astonish us as much as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly or Gregor Samsa turning into a bug. For example he states that “In fact, in times of climate change, those who just want to breathe local air will suffocate.” He also states that “Those who eat only locally will starve.”
Beck summarizes his ideas nicely for us when he says, “In sum, metamorphosis is not social change, not evolution, not revolution and not crisis. It is a mode of changing the nature of human existence. It signifies the age of side effects. It challenges our way of being in the world.”
This is heady stuff, exciting, but not rash or impetuous. A few chapter titles should give my readers a good idea about what to expect from Beck. In his chapter “Being God,” Beck reminds us how far we have come when we consider test tube babies and “the ever more extensive manufacturability of human life.” Have we already arrived at a Brave New World? I think Beck would argue “Yes.” In the chapter on How Climate Change Might Save the World Beck says that “Climate change is creating existential moments of decision. This happens unintended, unseen, unwanted and is neither goal-oriented nor ideologically driven.” Beck does not believe these changes should signal the apocalypse, but the chance to engineer “future structures, norms, and beginnings.”
The first audience for this book will be scholars at the university who want to understand Ulrich Beck’s last thoughts about the remarkable changes occurring globally in the 21st Century. Ambitious general readers who don’t mind intellectual challenge may also find this book thought provoking and rewarding, although I don’t think we will find it on the best seller list any time soon. Recommended with noted reservations.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Making sense of an increasingly unhinged world
By Steve Benner
Ulrich Beck was Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His sociological text, "The Metamorphosis of the World" was incomplete and in preliminary manuscript form only at the the of his sudden death from a heart attack in early 2015. His partner, Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim, has worked with Beck's former colleagues and collaborators, Anders Blok (Copenhagen) and Sabine Selchow (London) to bring the work to publishable form for Polity Press.
The book's main topic is a proposed remodelling of the way sociologists need to think of and analyse the modern world if they are to make sense of the way it now functions; that the mode of change into which the world has now entered should no longer be viewed in conventional sociological terms of transformational, revolutionary or evolutionary but rather as metamorphosis -- the author's suggested term for a world undergoing complicated spontaneous (and irreversible) emergence into something new, unknown and unplanned. This change is not the result of deliberate policy or design anywhere, but rather arises as a consequences of undesirable side-effects of the progress of modernity; side-effects (such as climate change) that operate on a global scale and which render obsolete political action and thinking within traditional national boundaries, creating "risk societies" across national and class boundaries and calling into question the legitimacy of nation-state political decision-making.
The book's main intended audience would appear to be principally sociologists themselves, rather than the general public, for whom many of the finer points of the author's argument will be lost, obscured by the opaque and impenetrably precise technical language which the author employs (and not helped by the fact that much of that language is clearly influenced by Beck's German language heritage). That said, however, there remain many revelatory ideas for the lay reader within this volume's 200 pages and anyone prepared to invest the effort in reading it should be well rewarded with much to ponder, not just with regard to the politics of global climate change, but also with regard to digital communities, the politics of invisibility, empowering of the younger generation, the emerging promise of a world of great equality and the power struggles that are likely to arise, as nation-states lose their legitimacy and world cities emerge to become the principal power-houses for global change in the way people view the world and their relationship with it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent points that are presented in a hard-to-comprehend style
By Connie (She who hikes with dogs)
German philosopher Ulrich Beck died before his book could be published, but even with his wife and colleagues working to finish the book for him, I still find this hard to understand. This is not easy reading by any means. Beck touches on many topics that truly are metamorphosing, and there doesn't seem to be a stop to all this madness. The world has changed so much that we face the constant threat of war for survival, and it may take a catastrophe for the world and its leaders to foment change.
Some of the areas that Beck mentions include climate change and he makes some interesting observations in international businesses like Coca-Cola, a company that until it started facing water shortages near its plants that are located in drought-striken areas, would not address the issue. Now it has trouble obtaining enough water to produce its soda. Vineyards in Europe are also suffering from lack of water, and the loss of a vineyard can mean the complete destruction of a once profitable wine maker.
Other issues Beck presents is post-colonialism. We have seen the bloody revolutions and rebellions in former colonies. These bring with it serious human rights breaches in the form of extreme poverty and class inequality, oppression of races and women, environmental destruction, massive refugees fleeing, and the more rampant barbaric violence we have seen in Europe, Asia and Africa. We have seen the spread of "risk societies" and cosmopolitization, where the inequities are rising between extreme rich and extreme poor.
Beck also provides examples of extreme risk with the spread of nuclear power, financial speculation, the spread of genetic-modified organisms and food, nanotechnology, reproductive medicine, and what makes all these even more of a threat is the conscious efforts by big corporations to make these threats invisible, that is, making them appear far less of a menace and then not discussing them honestly.
Beck makes many good points in this book. But the scholarly writing style requires me to re-read passages multiple times to understand the message. The world has reached a crisis point, it is socially, politically and religiously not at the terms it was just last century. There is no turning back We are at a new "Realpolitik." Beck pleads for governments and nations to come together with solutions rather than endless battles that only prolong the growing insecurities the younger generations will inherit.
If only the presentation of Beck's arguments were presented in a more comprehensible manner.
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