Throughout the darkest moments of human history, evildoers have convinced communities to turn on groups that are regarded as in some way other and, by starting to think of them as less than human, persecute or even eliminate them. We can all recognize the unfathomable evils of dehumanization in slavery, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Jim Crow South, but we are not free from its power today. With climate change and political upheaval driving millions of refugees worldwide to leave their homes, we are likely to see more and more of this ugly and persistent phenomenon. What are we…mehr
Throughout the darkest moments of human history, evildoers have convinced communities to turn on groups that are regarded as in some way other and, by starting to think of them as less than human, persecute or even eliminate them. We can all recognize the unfathomable evils of dehumanization in slavery, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Jim Crow South, but we are not free from its power today. With climate change and political upheaval driving millions of refugees worldwide to leave their homes, we are likely to see more and more of this ugly and persistent phenomenon. What are we to do? Drawing on his deep and wide-ranging knowledge of the history, psychology, and politics of dehumanization, David Livingstone Smith shows us how to recognize it and how to fight back.
David Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He has written or edited nine books, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin's Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers, but also by historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence.
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Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Why Dehumanization Matters Chapter 3. Defining Dehumanization Chapter 4. Holocaust Chapter 5. Lynching Chapter 6. How We Do Race Chapter 7. Racism Chapter 8. Race Science Chapter 9. Essence Chapter 10. From Barbados to Nazi Germany Chapter 11. Which Lives Matter? Chapter 12. The Act of Killing Chapter 13. Morality Chapter 14. Self-Engineering Chapter 15. Ideology Chapter 16. The Politics of the Human Chapter 17. Dangerous Speech Chapter 18. Illusion Chapter 19. Genocide Chapter 20. Contradiction Chapter 21. Impurity Chapter 22. Monsters Chapter 23. Criminals Chapter 24. Varities of Dehumanization Chapter 25. Dehuminization and its Neighbours Chapter 26. Resisting Reading Deeper