The anti-nuclear prophecy

In France as in Germany the movement against nulear power plants presents a rather dappled picture covering all the shades between just negative policy of prevention and dreamy utopianism. Touraine and his co-operators try to find a key to decipher it. The book is about the high-explosive question whether the nuclear energy conflict is just a conflict among others or whether a new 'social movement' is announcing itself that really deserves the name. It is an exemplary study on such promoting, socio-critical perspectives as may announce their coming in the antinuclear-power movement. (orig./HP)