Beyond the Green Transformation On the Way to a Postliberal Modernity

Untenability
Introduction to the English Edition

1. After the End of Humanity
1.1 The eco-emancipatory project
1.2 Guiding questions and lines of continuity
1.3 The unthinkable
1.4 Roadmap

2. On the Brink of Disaster
2.1 The abyss
2.2 Crises as opportunities?
2.3 Transformation entrapped
2.4 Shattered illusions
2.5 Beyond the critical orthodoxies

3. Great Transformations
3.1 Capitalism in crisis?
3.2 Planetary boundaries and the Anthropocene
3.3 The autocratic-authoritarian turn
3.4 Digitalization and artificial intelligence
3.5 China and the new geopolitical conflict
3. Interim results: The metamorphosis of modernity

4. Reflexive Modernization
4.1 The return of modernisation theory
4.2 Why Ulrich Beck?
4.3 Second modernity
4.4 Ecologization, democratization, cosmopolitan society
4.5 A providential gift

5. Deconstructing the 'Legend'
5.1 No automatism
5.2 Reflexivity and destabilisation?
5.3 The ecological paradox
5.4 Metamorphosis to third modernity
5.5 Interim results II: Three phases of modernity

6. The Emancipatory Catastrophe
6.1 Reflexivity and dialectic
6.2 The dialectic of sustainability
6.3 The dialectic of emancipation
6.4 The dialectic of democracy
6.5 Emancipation from the EEP

7. Interregnum
7.1 Pessimistic, deterministic, reactionary?
7.2 What is the benefit?
7.3 Coping with the trauma
7.4 Beyond dystopia
7.5 Critical sociology, transformative sustainability research and (eco-)political education

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