ABSTRACT This contribution takes the 50th anniversary of the original edition of Vertrauen, and the publication of a new translation of Trust and Power, as an opportunity to reconsider Niklas Luhmann’s contribution to, and further promise for, trust research. It demonstrates the manifold ways in which Luhmann’s insights can inform trust research, without therefore having to subscribe to Luhmann’s systems theory as a whole. It focuses on five thematic fields in particular: the fundamental significance of trust, interpersonal vs. system trust, the relationship of trust and distrust, trust as a distinctly social phenomenon, and the relationship of trust and power. For each of these, it finds that while some aspects of Luhmann’s contribution have experienced widespread (if not always explicit) adoption already, others have remained underresearched and hold great promise for further study, making Luhmann’s theory a veritable ‘treasure trove’ for trust research.

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揭开财富宝库：卢曼的信任理论如何丰富信任研究？

摘要这项贡献是在Vertrauen原始版本发行50周年之际，并发行了《信任与力量》的新译本，以此为契机，重新考虑了Niklas Luhmann对信任研究的贡献并进一步提出了希望。它展示了卢曼的见解可以为信任研究提供信息的多种方式，因此不必从整体上接受卢曼的系统理论。它特别关注五个主题领域：信任的基本意义，人际关系vs系统信任，信任与不信任的关系，作为明显的社会现象的信任以及信任与权力的关系。对于上述每一项，研究人员都发现，尽管卢曼（Luhmann）贡献的某些方面已经被广泛采用（如果不是总是很明确的话），