{"id":5303,"date":"2021-08-31T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:55:09","slug":"david-smiths-forthcoming-book-singled-out-in-the-portland-press-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/david-smiths-forthcoming-book-singled-out-in-the-portland-press-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"David Smith&#8217;s forthcoming book, singled out in the Portland Press Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 29, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cMaking Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization,\u201d by David Livingstone Smith. Harvard University Press. $27.95, hardcover, on sale Oct. 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/multifiles.pressherald.com\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/08\/Books-making-monsters.jpg?rel=related\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/multifiles.pressherald.com\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/08\/Books-making-monsters-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26087118\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With \u201cMaking Monsters,\u201d the University of New England\u2019s David Livingstone Smith has crafted a meditation on dehumanization that manages to be both scholarly and accessible. Smith is the foremost philosopher on the topic, and is a regular source for media around the world on the roots of racist and political violence. As in his earlier works \u201cOn Inhumanity\u201d and \u201cLess Than Human,\u201d the author leaves behind jargon and roots the book deeply in history and current affairs to present a compelling case as to why humans can be so cruel as to think of each other as inhuman. While I\u2019d often hesitate to include an academic title in a list of recommendations for a general audience, this title is simply too important to miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2021\/08\/29\/four-maine-books-coming-out-this-fall-that-are-worth-the-read\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2021\/08\/29\/four-maine-books-coming-out-this-fall-that-are-worth-the-read\/\">Full article <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 29, 2021 \u201cMaking Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization,\u201d by David Livingstone Smith. Harvard University &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}