Trust and Violence : : An Essay on a Modern Relationship / / Jan Philipp Reemtsma.

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 ha...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Th e Mystery
  • Chapter 1. Trust and Modernity
  • Chapter 2. Power and Violence
  • Chapter 3. Delegitimation/Relegitimation
  • Chapter 4. Trust in Violence
  • Chapter 5. Violence and Communication
  • Notes
  • Bibliography