Smith, David Livingstone
Making Monsters: The - Uncanny Power of - Dehumanization
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674545564
- author:
- Smith, David Livingstone
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 21.2 x 14.6 x 3.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Professional & Vocational, Nonfiction, Social Sciences,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
David Livingstone Smith explores what it means to dehumanize others and how and why we do it. A poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization, Making Monsters draws on harrowing accounts of violence throughout history.
In this thought-provoking book, Smith establishes that dehumanization is a complex phenomenon that involves holding two contradictory beliefs at once: our enemy is both subhuman and fully human. By examining the relationship between dehumanization and racism, as well as the psychology of hierarchy, Smith sheds light on why dehumanizing others transforms them into something terrifying that must be destroyed.
Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology, and 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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