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Dehumanizing the vulnerable : when word games take lives
- Title
- Dehumanizing the vulnerable : when word games take lives / by William Brennan.
- Author
- Brennan, William.
- Publication
- Chicago : Loyola University Press, c1995.
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Details
- Description
- x, 287 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- A Campion book
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-266) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : The dynamics of linguistic warfare -- Global war on the unwanted unborn -- Assaults on dependent and/or disabled discards -- Female objects of sexploitation and violence -- Destruction of the European Jews and others -- Genocide of the Soviet people -- Black slavery and kindred Americans -- Annihilation of Native Americans -- Deficient humans : on the margins of the human race -- Subhuman/nonhuman entities : below the level of humanity -- A species of lower animals and wild beasts -- Repulsive parasitic creatures -- Diseases of epidemic proportions -- Inanimate objects for exploitation -- Waste products : at the bottom of the subhuman scrap pile -- Legal nonpersons : nonexistence before the law -- The reality test : refuting the validity of disparaging designations -- Statements of semantic impact : assessing the devasting effects of words on deeds -- Toward a vocabulary of life-affirming images : replacing dehumanizing language with a language of humanization and divinization -- Postscript : Thinking the unthinkable : the prospects for expanding the boundaries of humanity.
- Call Number
- JFE 95-18295
- ISBN
- 0829408223 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0829408215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94041824
- OCLC
- 31605995
- Author
- Brennan, William.
- Title
- Dehumanizing the vulnerable : when word games take lives / by William Brennan.
- Imprint
- Chicago : Loyola University Press, c1995.
- Series
- A Campion book
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-266) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 95-18295