Климатичните промени и „заблудата на какавидата“. Бележки по полетата на Метаморфозата на света на Улрих Бек
Climate Change and „The Caterpillar Fallacy“. Notes on Ulrich Beck’s The Metamorphosis of the World

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews Ulrich Beck’s The Metamorphosis of the World, published in 1916 by Polity Press (Cambridge). The book is one of the most meaningful attempts in recent years at theorizing climate change from a sociological perspective. In essence, this text is a critical reflection on the sociological concepts that Beck uses to problematize climate change (and especially the concept of emancipatory catastrophism); on the adequacy of the conceptual apparatus which he applies to conceptualize the topic sociologically; and on the logic of transformation (which stays hidden from the author himself) of the main question from sociological to a logic of normative values. Despite this and other critical remarks, the book gives an impulse to sociological thinking on climate change and the relevant risks, mostly by provoking us to formulate alternative sociological questions, which require detailed empirical research.

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