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Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others
St. Martin's Press
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0312532725
EAN: 9780312532727
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with
stunning examples from world history as well as today’s
headlines “Brute.” “Cockroach.” “Lice.” “Vermin.” “Dog.” “Beast.”
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. Less Than Human draws on a rich 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. David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted
in human nature, but gives us hope in also stating that
biological traits are malleable, showing us that change is
possible. Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our
nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.
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