The Risk Dimension - by Stefan Popov (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book presents a framework for understanding risk, blending sociology, philosophy, and political theory, while emphasizing applications in risk reduction and democratic deliberation.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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

About the Author

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