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Lee Yan Fong Library
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Lee Yan Fong Library |
HM1131 S6262 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | 00028564 |
HM1121 C78 2013 Crucial accountability : | HM1126 B57 2015 The art and practice of mediation / | HM1126 M45 2008 Transforming conflict through insight / | HM1131 S6262 2012 非人 : | HM1166 E545 2013 Think communication / | HM1166 G68 2002 溝通技能的訓練 / | HM1166 L86 2005 讓人無法說 NO 的攻心說話術 : |
Translation of : Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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."--$cProvided by publisher.