Dehumanization Matters
David Livingstone SmithWhat dehumanization is, how it works, and how to resist it.
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Human Monsters
Humanimality # 2, a painting by Sébastien Dubois
When I began researching dehumanization around 20 years ago, I believed that when we dehumanize people we think of them as nonhuman animals—as vermin, predators, and so on. This is the pictu...
Plea for a Center for Dehumanization Studies
For the past twenty years, my work has been focussed on dehumanization.
When I began, there was virtually no work on dehumanization outside of social psychology. Things have changed, at least somewhat. Twenty years ago there were no books...
The Unknown Freud
Sigmund Freud with his granddaughter Eva
One hundred seventy years ago today, Shlomo Freud was born in an apartment above a blacksmith in Moravia (now the Czech Republic). Shlomo was his Jewish name, his Christian name was Sigismund, which...
The Fascism Spectrum
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Is the present government of the USA a fascist regime? A decade ago, most people considered th...
Two Takes on Dehumanization
At the award ceremony
In 2024, Cornell University philosopher Kate Manne and I were jointly awarded the The Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution. The prize, which is awarded...
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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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