"This book originates from a conference ... which took place at the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, on December 4-5, 2008... The articles collected ... are not proceedings but a selection of re-written texts from the conference including additional texts by authors invited to contribute to the book"--Page V.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Basic trust?. Trust, Sociality, Selfhood / Arne Grn̜ -- Trust in Early Development / Philippe Rochat -- Trust as Basic Openness and Self-Transcendence / Claudia Welz -- Trust and Personhood. Counting on One Another / Karen Jones -- Temporality, Transcendence, and Being Bound to Others in Trust / Anthony J. Steinbock -- Trusting in Persons and Things / G nter Figal -- Self and Other in Trust and Distrust. Judging about Trustworthiness / Gry Ardal -- "In God We Trust" : Trust, Mistrust and Distrust as Modes of Orientation / Ingolf U. Dalferth -- "In God We Trust" : Trust in the Making--and in Becoming / Philipp Stoellger -- Transformative Trust?. Violated Trust and the Self : A Negativistic Approach / Burkhard Liebsch -- On Being Trusted / Lars Hertzberg -- Creative Trust / Anne Marie Pahuus.