Countermodernity and Uncertainty: The violent break from the certainties of science in the early XXI

Authors

  • Fernando Robles Salgado Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

Part IV of the book: "The unexpected disappointment of Modernity. Discomfort, irritations and bitter fruits of Risk Society," specially reprinted for this journal.

Keywords:

Risk Society, Violence, Science, Power Relations, Politics

Author Biography

Fernando Robles Salgado, Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Concepción

Doctor en Sociología, Universidad Ludwig-Maximilian de Munich, Alemania.

Profesor del Departamento de Sociología
Universidad de Concepción, Chile