RT Book
T1 Making monsters: the uncanny power of dehumanization
A1 Smith, David Livingstone 1953-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
PB Harvard University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/175284176X
AB 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.
AB "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"--
CN HM1131
SN 9780674545564
K1 Humanity : Psychological aspects
K1 Respect for persons
K1 Power (Social sciences)
K1 Toleration
K1 Hate
K1 Lynching