Trust and Violence: An Essay on a Modern Relationship

by Jan Philipp Reemtsma

A philosophical investigation into the connections between trust and violence

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691142963
• ISBN13: 9780691142968
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"