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  • 1
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    On inhumanity : dehumanization and how to resist it (2020)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780190092566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    DDC: 302.4
    Abstract: The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again - that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche-deeper than prejudice itself - leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This text looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result.
    Note: Also issued in print: 2020 , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190923006.001.0001
    URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923006.001.0001
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    Making monsters : the uncanny power of dehumanization (2021)
    Cambridge : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674269781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smith, David Livingstone, 1953 - Making monsters
    DDC: 179/.9
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface: Something Like a Darkness -- 1. What Is Dehumanization? -- 2. Dehumanization Is Real -- 3. In the Blood -- 4. Essential Differences -- 5. The Logic of Race -- 6. Hierarchy -- 7. The Order of Things -- 8. Being Human -- 9. Ideology -- 10. Dehumanization as Ideology -- 11. Ambivalence -- 12. Making Monsters -- 13. Last Words and Loose Ends -- Notes -- Index.
    Abstract: A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn’t. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphor—dehumanization really does happen in our minds. Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the politics of demonization and violence
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    On Inhumanity : Dehumanization and How to Resist It (2020)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO
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    ISBN: 9780190923013
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 179.9
    Keywords: Humanity-Psychological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: cover -- Half title -- On Inhumanity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Dehumanization Matters -- 3. Defining Dehumanization -- 4. Holocaust -- 5. Lynching -- 6. How We Do Race -- 7. Racism -- 8. Race Science -- 9. Essence -- 10. From Barbados to Nazi Germany -- 11. Which Lives Matter? -- 12. The Act of Killing -- 13. Morality -- 14. Self-​Engineering -- 15. Ideology -- 16. The Politics of the Human -- 17. Dangerous Speech -- 18. Illusion -- 19. Genocide -- 20. Contradiction -- 21. Impurity -- 22. Monsters -- 23. Criminals -- 24. Cruelty -- 25. Dehumanization and Its Neighbors -- 26. Resisting -- Notes -- Reading Deeper -- Index.
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    Less than human : why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others (2011)
    New York : St. Martin's Press
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    ISBN: 9780312532727
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 326 Seiten , 22 cm
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 305.5/68
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    Keywords: Humanity Psychological aspects ; Social isolation ; Marginality, Social ; Social status ; Humanität ; Isolation 〈Soziologie〉 ; Sozialstatus ; Psychologie ; Humanität ; Isolation ; Erniedrigung ; Marginalität ; Sozialstatus ; Psychologie
    Abstract: A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines. "Brute." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans--for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. This book draws on a mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. Psychologist David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also showing us that change is possible.--From publisher description
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: Creatures of a kind somewhat inferior -- Less than human -- Steps toward a theory of dehumanization -- Caliban's children -- The rhetoric of enmity -- Learning from genocide -- Race -- The cruel animal -- Ambivalence and transgression -- Questions for a theory of dehumanization.
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    Less than human : why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others (2011)
    New York, NY : St. Martin's Press
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    ISBN: 9780312532727 , 9781250003836 , 9781429968560 , 0312532725
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 326 S. , 21 cm
    Edition: 1. ed.
    DDC: 305.568
    Keywords: Randgruppe ; Entmenschlichung ; Diskriminierung ; Humanität ; Isolation 〈Soziologie〉 ; Sozialstatus ; Psychologie ; Humanity--Psychological aspects. ; Social isolation. ; Marginality, Social. ; Social status. ; Randgruppe ; Diskriminierung ; Entmenschlichung
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    Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious (1999)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401716116
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 221 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Cognitive Systems 23
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy of mind ; History
    Abstract: Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind. Freud emerges as a sophisticated philosopher who addresses many of the central questions that concern contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists while anticipating many of their views. While still a student in Vienna, Freud was initiated into philosophy by Franz Brentano. The book charts Freud's intellectual development as he deals with the mind-body problem, the nature of consciousness, folk psychology versus scientific psychology, the relationship between language and thought, realism and antirealism in psychology, and the nature of unconscious mental events. The book also critically examines writings on Freud by Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Searle, demonstrating their weakness as interpretations and criticisms of Freud's position. Readership: Philosophers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1611-6
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