Making monsters: the uncanny power of dehumanization

Preface: Something like a darkness -- What is dehumanization? -- Dehumanization is real -- In the blood -- Essential differences -- The logic of race -- Hierarchy -- The order of things -- Being human -- Ideology -- Dehumanization as ideology -- Ambivalence -- Making monsters -- Last words and loose...

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Main Author: Smith, David Livingstone 1953- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Harvard University Press 2021
In:Year: 2021
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Keywords:
Humanity > Psychological aspects
Respect for persons
Power (Social sciences)
Toleration
Hate
Lynching
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1772519359
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Summary:Preface: Something like a darkness -- What is dehumanization? -- Dehumanization is real -- In the blood -- Essential differences -- The logic of race -- Hierarchy -- The order of things -- Being human -- Ideology -- Dehumanization as ideology -- Ambivalence -- Making monsters -- Last words and loose ends.
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual dehumanization happens in our minds. The process is deeply seated in our psychology, and it is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to it"--
Physical Description:xvi, 329 Seiten
ISBN:9780674545564