1. Introduction: Mapping dehumanization studies Maria Kronfeldner
Part 1: Oscillating boundaries, dimensions, and hierarchies of humanity in historical contexts
2. Dehumanization Before the Columbian exchange Siep Stuurman
3. "Humanity" and its Limits in Early Modern European Thought László Kontler
4. Enlightenment Humanization and Dehumanization, and the Orangutan Silvia Sebastiani
5. Dehumanizing the Exotic in Living Human Exhibitions Guido Abbattista
6. Dehumanizing Strategies in Nazi Ideology and their Anthropological Context Johannes Steizinger
7. Theorizing the Inhumanity of Human Nature, 1955-1985 Erika Lorraine Milam
Part 2: Further special contexts of dehumanization
8. The Social Psychology of Dehumanization Nick Haslam
9. Dehumanization and the Loss of Moral Standing Edouard Machery
10. Dehumanization and the Question of Animals Alice Crary
11. Dehumanization, Disability, and Eugenics Robert A. Wilson
12. Dehumanization and Human Rights Marie-Luisa Frick
13. Dehumanization by Law Luigi Corrias
14. Dehumanisation in Literature and the Figure of the Perpetrator Andrea Timár
Part 3: The complex facets of dehumanization
15. Dehumanization and Social Death as Fundamentals of Racism Wulf D. Hund
16. How Status and Interdependence Explain Different Forms of Dehumanization Susan T. Fiske
17. Exploring Metadehumanization and Self-dehumanization from a Target Perspective Stéphanie Demoulin, Pierre Maurage, and Florence Stinglhamber
18. The Dehumanization and Rehumanization of Refugees Victoria M. Esses, Stelian Medianu, and Alina Sutter
19. Motivational and Cognitive Underpinnings of Fear of Social Robots that become "Too Human for Us" Maria Paola Paladino, Jeroen Vaes, and Jolanda Jetten
Part 4: Conceptual and epistemological questions regarding dehumanization
20. Objectification, Inferiorization, and Projection in Phenomenological Research on Dehumanization Sara Heinämaa and James Jardine
21. Why Dehumanization is Distinct from Objectification Mari Mikkola
22. On Hatred and Dehumanization Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang
23. Dehumanization, the Problem of Humanity and the Problem of Monstrosity David Livingstone Smith
24. Psychological Essentialism and Dehumanization Maria Kronfeldner
25. Could Dehumanization Be Perceptual? Somogy Varga
Index
Biography
Maria Kronfeldner is Professor of Philosophy at Central European University (New York - Vienna - Budapest). She is the author of What’s Left of Human Nature (2018), and Darwinian Creativity and Memetics (Routledge, 2011). She currently directs 'The Epistemology of the In/Human' project.
"Dehumanization as practiced is an all too tragically familiar feature of human history; dehumanization as analyzed and critically theorized is, sadly, far less explored. In this invaluable contribution to the literature, editor Maria Kronfeldner has brought together an impressive international team of experts to examine the dismayingly diverse ways and realms of human interaction in which dehumanization can and continues to take place. One can only hope that this major work in theory will help in the reduction and—one day—the ultimate elimination of the practice." - Charles W. Mills, The Graduate Center CUNY, USA
