Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization

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.

• | Author: David Livingstone Smith
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2021
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674545564
• | ISBN-10: 0674545567