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This book offers a conceptual framework for understanding risk, drawing on fifty years of sociology and philosophical modernity to explore key concepts such as uncertainty, danger, and threat. Stefan Popov applies this framework to risk reduction policies, emphasizing the role of deliberative decision-making in liberal democratic societies. In so doing, Popov presents risk as a political phenomenon, highlighting its structural features through the lens of Kant’s aesthetic judgement and its reconstruction in Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy.

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Today risk thinking is our dominant thinking about the future. Our conceptualization of “risk” shapes future. This makes Stefan Popov’s work of critical sociology really important. His intellectually sharp and ambitious book dissects both the theoretical foundations but also the limits of our risk thinking. * Ivan Krastev, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna *

Today, risk has become the dominant framework through which we understand the future. Our very conception of ‘risk’ actively shapes how that future is imagined and managed. This is what makes Stefan Popov’s work so significant. His intellectually rigorous and ambitious book not only unpacks the theoretical foundations of risk thinking but also exposes its inherent limitations. * Ivan Krastev, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna *

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Stefan Popov is professor of philosophy and social science at New Bulgarian University.

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