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Trust and violence : an essay on a modern relationship / Jan Philipp Reemtsma

Author
Reemtsma, Jan Philipp
Uniform Title
Vertrauen und Gewalt. English
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (393 pages)
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English.
Contents
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Mystery; Chapter 1: Trust and Modernity; Two Scenes from Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull; Trust; Practices of Social Trust; Trust and Seriousness--The Gretchenfrage; Trust and the Construction of the We; We Can't Not Trust; Reorientation; The Bearers of Premodern Social Trust; The Problem of Trust within Modernity; Trust in Modernity; Chapter 2: Power and Violence; Kratos and Bia; A Phenomenology of Physical Violence; Locative Violence; Raptive Violence; Autotelic Violence; Reduction to Body; Psychological Violence/Autotelic Bias., Fragmentation: The Destruction of the IComplementary Opposites; Power--Without Violence; Coercive Power; The Temporality of Power; Reward Power, Coercive Power, and Violence; Richard III: A Flawed Power Calculus; Consent as a Function of Temporality; Participatory Power, Trust, Legal Regulation; Monopoly; Delegation; The Dynamics of Demonopolization; Participatory Power and Violence; Modernity and Violence; Chapter 3: Delegitimation/Relegitimation; Marsyas; Max Stays Seated; Permitted, Prohibited, Mandated; Civilization and Barbarism; The I and the Idea of Humanity; Disgust., Shakespeare and the Dawning Awareness of Violence as WrongCurtailing Violence and Preserving Trust; Relegitimation (1): The Rhetoric of Nation and Civilizing Mission; Bounding the Nation; The Guillotine and the Puppy; Relegitimation (2): The Rhetoric of Eschatological Purge; Relegitimation (3): The Rhetoric of Genocide; Modernity and Its Discontents; Chapter 4: Trust in Violence; Violence--Trust--Power: The Devil and the Little Bishop; Auschwitz--Gulag--Hiroshima; Escalating the Instruments of Violence; Modernization and the Gang; Demodernization and the Gang; The Logic of Terror; Macbeth., Why the Jews?When the Impossible Becomes Possible; Trust in Violence and the Role of Personality; Trust in Violence and Self-Trust; Chapter 5: Violence and Communication; Cola Gentile Speaks; Sociology's Silence; The Disappearance of the Third Party; Coping (1): Delegitimation by Criminal Procedure and the Exclusion of the Third Party; Coping (2): The Authority of the Victim and the Replacement of the Third Party; Coping (3): Instrumental Interpretation and the Denial of Communication; Excursus: A Brief Theory of the Desperado, or, Did William Tell Really Liberate Switzerland?, and Displaying the Instruments of Torture--Again?Angst and Self-Assurance; Polonius, His Will and Testament; Notes; Bibliography.
Summary
The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent centuries been so bloody? In Trust and Violence, acclaimed German intellectual and public figure Jan Philipp Reemtsma demonstrates that the aim of decreasing and deterring violence has gone hand in hand with the misleading idea that violence is abnormal and beyond comprehension. We would be far better off, Reemtsma argues, if we acknowledged the disturbing fact that violence is normal. At the same time, Reemtsma contends that violence cannot be fully understood without delving into the concept of trust.
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ISBN
9781400842346 (electronic bk.)
1400842344 (electronic bk.)
0691142963
9780691142968
1280494425
9781280494420
9786613589651
6613589659
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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