The cry of terror of these days and weeks is probably: the revenge of the Taliban. Thousands are fleeing from this revenge, hundreds of thousands of Afghans have to live with the fear. We associate revenge with one thing above all: lawless, unbridled, behavior that lies outside our civilization and society, something utterly different. On our list now is a book that examines precisely this other, this "blind spot of modernity." It is simply called Revenge and is nothing less than a wide-ranging, highly illuminating cultural-historical investigation of a repressed part of our reality that "inkognito unseren eigenen Alltag" (p. 322).