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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
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
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 I
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 Wrong
Curtailing 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?
Displaying the Instruments of Torture—Again?
Angst and Self-Assurance
Polonius, His Will and Testament
Notes
Bibliography
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