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Dehumanization Matters

David Livingstone Smith

What dehumanization is, how it works, and how to resist it.

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    Professor of philosophy, former psychotherapist, and award-winning author of Less Than Human (St. Martin's, 2011), On Inhumanity (Oxford, 2020) and Making Monsters (Harvard, 2021).

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