David Livingstone Smith
Gästprofessor
Gästprofessor i filosofi, i Tage Danielssons namn.
Avhumanisering, ras och folkmord
Professor i filosofi vid University of New England i Maine
Forskning
Fascist States of Mind
Fascism is an important concept, although there is a lot of controversy about how it should be understood. Scholars mostly think of fascism as a kind of political organization, or system of governance, involving certain distinctive ideological components.
This lecture will present a different perspective. Drawing on psychological and psychoanalytic resources, it will describe fascism as a state of mind that supports and empowers the more familiar external features of fascist movements.
Installationsföreläsning inspelad 2026-01-01.
Publikationer
Smith har skrivit tre böcker i ämnet
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press, 2011). Tilldelades 2012 års Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction.
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It, (Oxford University Press 2020).
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, (Harvard University Press 2021). Belönades med Joseph B. Gittler Award för samhällsvetenskaplig filosofi och nominerades till Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
Medverkan
År 2012 var han inbjuden gäst vid G20:s ekonomiska toppmöte, där han talade om avhumanisering och massvåld.