Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: surplus violence -- Muskets, terrorists -- the musket and the bomb -- the triangle of violence -- uncivil war -- apocalyptic terrorism -- Thinking violence -- on violence -- Civilisation -- rediscovering civil society -- incivility -- Barbarism? -- state violence -- barbarism -- overkill -- damocles and democracy -- philadelphia -- Torture -- civility politics -- Why violence? -- the roots of incivility -- violence as entertainment -- child murder -- Uncivil wars -- Waste lands -- Landmines -- Ethics -- social pacification -- triage? -- Civil violence? -- trenton -- revolutionary violence -- anti-party politics -- judging violence -- georg elser -- Ten rules for democratising violence -- thinking remedies -- Further reading -- Index.