The problems of violence are still very dark, wrote Hannah Arendt. One of the central questions that Jan Philipp Reemtsma addresses is why sociology struggles so much with the phenomena of violence. He analyzes what trust, and especially trust in modernity, means and in what way this trust is tied to the specific legitimacy requirements that the use of violence in modernity is subjected to. How can extreme destructiveness coexist alongside or despite the modern program of violence limitation, and why does trust in modernity persist despite the violent excesses of the 20th century? Jan Philipp Reemtsma examines the phenomena of violence in their various bodily references and in their relation to the exercise of power. He questions why certain forms of violence persist in modernity.