What is hate and why is there so much of it? How does it originate, and what can we do about it? This book opens with a discussion of how hate makes its presence felt in the real world, discussing various definitions and theories of hate. Next it describes a duplex - two-part - …
"What is hate and why is there so much of it? How does it originate, and what can we do about it? These are some of the questions addressed in The Nature of Hate. This book opens with a discussion of how hate makes its presence felt in the real world. Then it discusses various d…
"What is hate and why is there so much of it? How does it originate, and what can we do about it? These are some of the questions addressed in The Nature of Hate. This book opens with a discussion of how hate makes its presence felt in the real world. Then it discusses various d…
"Carolin Emcke, eine der wichtigsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, äussert sich in ihrem engagierten Essay "Gegen den Hass" zu den grossen Themen unserer Zeit: Rassismus, Fanatismus, Demokratiefeindlichkeit. In der zunehmend polarisierten, fragmentierten Öffentlichkeit dominier…
Carolin Emcke, eine der wichtigsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, äußert sich in ihrem engagierten Essay : egen den Hass9 zu den großen Themen unserer Zeit: Rassismus, Fanatismus, Demokratiefeindlichkeit. In der zunehmend polarisierten, fragmentierten Öffentlichkeit dominiert v…
It is tempting to believe that dehumanisation is an excess of rhetoric - that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanise our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanisation is a genuine psychol…
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual deh…
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual deh…