Violence – reason – fear: interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical approaches

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- On the Violence of Culture -- 1 Cultura: Worry and Run Away -- 2 Enthusiasm and Conversion -- 3 Taming, Confusion and Conversion -- 4 Truth as with Fists: Cultivated Irritation -- 5 Bondage and Liberation -- References -- Threatening Attractiveness: The Charisma of Violence -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Mythical and Religious Origins of Violence -- 3 From Secularized to Political Theology -- 4 The Basically Penultimate Word of Hermeneutics: A Conciliatory Conclusion? -- References -- Foreignness: Between Sacralization and Resentment -- 1 Foreignness as a Relational Concept -- 2 Sacralized Strangeness -- 3 The Resentment Towards Foreignness -- References -- Fear and Vulnerability: Anthropological Approaches -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fear as an Emotion -- 3 The Fear of Freedom -- 4 The Fear of Compulsion -- 5 The Finiteness of Being: Fear - Violence - Hope -- References -- (Mis)understandings of Recognition: On the Problem of the 'Negative Balance of Recognition' -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Thought 1: The Problem of Violence and Its Conceptual Frame -- 3 Thought 2: Violence and the 'Negative Recognition Balance' Theorem -- 4 Thought 3: The 'Promise' of Recognition: A Brief Deconstruction -- 5 Thought 4: The Trap of Individualization -- 6 Thought 5: Vulnerability and the Problem of Violence: A Final Thought -- References -- On the History of Fascination with Violence: Mediations of the Immediate -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Violence and Society -- 3 History of Fascination -- 4 Evil Pictures -- 5 Performativity of the Fascination Motif -- References -- Violence in Late Modern Societies: Fury Rooms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Approaches Based on Social Theory -- 3 Late Modernism and Fury Rooms -- 4 Fenced Tremendous Feelings -- References -- The Violence of the Media and the Media of Violence.