ISBN:
9781400842346
,
1400842344
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (393 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Originaltitel:
Vertrauen und Gewalt 〈English〉
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Reemtsma, Jan Philipp Trust and Violence : An Essay on a Modern Relationship
DDC:
302
Schlagwort(e):
Power (Social sciences)
;
Trust
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Social interaction
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Social Science
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social interaction
;
Trust
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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 i
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