On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

Smith, David Livingstone

ISBN 10: 0190923008 / ISBN 13: 9780190923006

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2020

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0190923008-3-35291252

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David Livingstone Smith explores the history, psychology, and present--day dangers of dehumanization--the phenomenon has paved the way to slavery, genocide, and other atrocities-teaching us how we can resist this all-too-natural tendency that lies in all of us.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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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Titel: On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to ...
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good