Therese Walsh explores
dehumanization in fiction using one of my favourite movies, The Shawshank Redemption.
I've cooperated with
this dehumanization in the past and have also been a victim of it.
Not exact matches
The boy's lie is truthful, for
in telling it he stands against the
dehumanization.
The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and
dehumanization of peoples» lives
in the cities of India.
The resultant human carnage
in such a case takes the form of a sophisticated psychological increment to a sustained, subtle process of essential
dehumanization of a spouse or colleague or anyone
in the array of personal relationships.
Quoting Henri de Lubac, he insisted that efforts to organize the world without God can only result
in frustration and
dehumanization.
«
Dehumanization» does not get past anyone, even the self - proclaimed atheist, and that's apparent
in Frank Schaeffer's case.
The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us
in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of
dehumanization.
Likewise, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) was important and influential
in its day, but today's reader is more likely to notice such eccentricities as an astonishing chapter arguing that the postwar suburban home was «a comfortable concentration camp» that aimed at the «progressive
dehumanization» of women.
In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousand
In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization:
dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions
in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousand
in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.
Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the
dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health
in the concentration camp.
What was supposed to last 2 weeks had to be shut down
in 5 days due to the escalating cruelty of the guards and the increasingly disturbing
dehumanization of the prisoners.
I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and
dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men
in Western society.
This stance puts me
in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and
dehumanization.
It is the turning of man against his humanity with which we are concerned, the self - sought
dehumanization manifest
in so much individual and social pathology
in our century.
Many of the ways people online step beyond criticism, to mockery and
dehumanization, remind me of the way I was abused, and
in fact seem preeeeeeetty darn close to verbal abuse.
Altizer makes it quite clear
in The Descent Into Hell that his view does not lead to a
dehumanization of man.
In fact, Dalits and Adivasis experienced systematic
dehumanization, severe marginalization, and structural oppression through centuries of Indian history.
It begins to appear that a human being who habitually chose such a mode of behavior would,
in a psychoanalytic translation of Whitehead's ideas, progressively undergo a pathological
dehumanization of the self, by the self.
Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and
dehumanization which is the curse of existence
in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).
In the words of former Guantanamo interrogator Jennifer Bryson, «The starting point for torture is the
dehumanization of a detainee.
As is well known today (at least
in the academic circles of the black church), Richard Allen is commonly considered the father of the black church because of his refusal to be a member of a congregation where white Christians were making the house of God an instrument
in the
dehumanization of black people.
Indeed, the earth's compressive force is leading to just that —
in the forms of overpopulation and
dehumanization through overcrowded living and working conditions.
Second, entries on major features
in human psychology that can contribute to human rights abuses (e.g. psychic numbing,
dehumanization) are included.
One night shift MP, Ken Davis, later reported how
dehumanization had been bred into their thinking: «As soon as we'd have prisoners come
in, sandbags instantly on their head.
Our studies test this model's predictions
in both intergroup and interpersonal contexts, as well as at the extremes of objectification and
dehumanization.
Reports show that many millennials report feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, passivity, boredom, fear, isolation, and
dehumanization, resulting
in a loss of autonomy and community connection.
obedient Mpls slave, 43, seeks older, aggressive selfish Master, especially with experience
in s / m, b & d, extreme humiliation, ritual, enforced chastity, display,
dehumanization, master / slave, etc. pain and safety limits, but psychological abuse, humiliation, etc, no limit.
The bigger picture is warning against xenophobia and selective
dehumanization packed
in a comically - tragic road movie of two oldtimers reflecting on their life.
Full Metal Jacket is a gripping portrayal of the
dehumanization and transformation of the US soldier
in the midst of the Vietnam War.
Nick and Lien's romance may be generic cliché, but it demonstrates human connection
in a world of
dehumanization, echoing «The Last of the Mohicans» defiant romance against a world at war.
The tender new iOS game Florence is, yes, the sort of game I tend to champion, the sort of art that feels particularly crucial and nourishing
in this period of intensified violence, cruelty, and
dehumanization.
These skills add immeasurably to their ability to deconstruct and discuss
in often vivid detail the ramifications of the
dehumanization of Africans and the systematic breakup of the black family for centuries on end.
Inundated with notable celebrities, it's too abstruse for a legion of starfuckers to fathom, much less righteously embrace its rather obvious critique of how completely commodifying an art form eventually results
in the
dehumanization of not only artists but audiences as well.
He made a name for himself by engaging
in what some have decried as
dehumanization of the disabled.
Bourges impressive feature conveys through a highly restrained formal structure how bureaucracy plays a role
in the
dehumanization of those caught
in the system.
This, the
dehumanization of an entire group of people based on a past transgression through forced poverty and pitting them against each other
in order to distract them from their real enemy, is not heady stuff, and neither is it difficult to establish a moral center within the material.
Having only a small glimpse of the aliens
in the trailer, leads us to think that either Liman is saving it all for the big screen, or trying to deliberately draw attention to the propagandic
dehumanization of the aliens, similar to Starship Troopers.
One side of that equation did suffer a
dehumanization far greater than the other, of course, and regardless of what most folks may have read about the horrors of slavery, it is another thing entirely to see them presented
in such a visceral manner.
Though often mistaken as a pro-war film, the movie is actually virulently anti-war, focusing on the
dehumanization process that troops undergo
in order to participate
in the act of killing.
A: The challenge to technology enhanced learning
in a world of unbounded upheaval and ominous
dehumanization is thought to lie
in the way the real needs of humans are fused to the capabilities of technologies.
In 2014, Cristian Diaconescu and Nicoleta Iordanescu from Bucharest, Romania set out to create an art project that could convey the distrust and
dehumanization that is GO →
It also epitomizes,
in and of itself, a history of the
dehumanization and debasement of blacks into objects.
No doubt this is an absurd, insane parallel, but I suggest that it makes a certain unconscious sense — all the more so
in view of the cultural historian José Ortega y Gasset's famous essay, «The
Dehumanization of Art.»
The ruling will prompt a name change «if only because it imperils the ability of the team's billionaire owner to keep profiting off the denigration and
dehumanization of Native Americans,» Oneida Indian Nation representative Ray Halbritter and NCAI executive director Jackie Pata said
in a statement.
«Commerce is a positive - sum game
in which everybody can win; as technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead, and they are less likely to become targets of demonization and
dehumanization».