صناعة الوحوش.. كيف يجرّد البشر من إنسانيتهم

“I did not accept that they were human beings. I see a child smiling at me and I still kill him.” This is how a Hutu man explained what he felt when he slaughtered a Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. These statements are shocking, yet we acknowledge them and hear their echoes in accounts of genocides and massacres throughout history. How can some people believe that their enemies are monsters and therefore easy to kill? David Smith offers a moving reading into the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization, exploring what it means and how and why we practice it. Dehumanization is deeply rooted in our psyches. Because we are all human, we are vulnerable to manipulation by those who traffic in policies of demonization and violence. David L. Smith specializes in Freud's philosophy and is a professor of philosophy at the University of New England. He has seven books to his credit, in addition to a number of articles and academic research.