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Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization

By David Livingstone Smith

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780674269781
DOI
10.4159/9780674269781
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2873847 bytes)
Pages
336\352
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 08:36:52

Description

It is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric—that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanize our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanization is a genuine psychological response to political manipulation, with harrowing consequences.

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