Phenomenology 2005

Volume 1, Issue Part 1, 2007

Selected Essays from Asia Part 1

Kim Hongwoo
Pages 277-309

Living in the Risk World
Ulrich Beck in the Shadow of Husserl and Heidegger

Th is essay is an attempt to inquire into the recent literature on risk and bring out a fundamental category of humanity, which is the unpreparedness of man’s Being-in-the-World. It will begin with Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) and follow through to Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society: Toward a New Modernity (1986). These points will then be related to the arguments of Husserl and Heidegger. In this way, the fundamental category of modern man is disclosed in its Being-in-the-World-for-which-no-one-Being-prepared.