The politics of non-knowing: An emerging area of social and political conflict in reflexive modernity

The Politics of Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 33-57

  Beck, Ulrich ^a,b   Wehling, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203877746     Document Type: Chapter

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