The objectification spectrum : understanding and transcending our diminishment and dehumanization of others / John M. Rector.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rector, John (John M.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices--Psychological aspects.

Prejudices.

Other (Philosophy).

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What lies at the heart of humanity's capacity for evil? Any tenable answer to this age-old question must include an explanation of our penchant for objectifying and dehumanizing our fellow human beings. The Objectification Spectrum: Understanding and Transcending Our Diminishment and Dehumanization of Others draws upon timeless wisdom to propose a new model of objectification. Rather than offering a narrow definition of the term, the author explores objectification as a spectrum of misapprehension running from its mildest form, casual indifference, to its most extreme manifestation, dehumaniza

Contents:

Cover; The Objectification Spectrum; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Leaving Plato's Cave-Our Only Hope; PART ONE Shadows on the Cave Wall: The Many Faces of Objectification; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Objectification: "A Slippery, Multiple Concept"; 3 Objectification Revisited: A Spectrum of Misapprehension; PART TWO The Human Situation: Limitations and Possibilities; 4 Three Observations from Antiquity: Philosophia Perennis; 5 Unity Consciousness: Reality at the Deepest Level; PART THREE What We Are: Dispositional Factors Contributing to Objectification

6 The Paradoxical Nature of Language and Other Boundaries7 Boundaries of Self; 8 Narcissism; 9 The Ego (Part One): Its Nature and Manifestations; 10 The Ego (Part Two): Having versus Being; 11 Problems Stemming from Death Denial; PART FOUR Who We Are: Situational Factors Contributing to Objectification; 12 Rising Awareness of Situational Power; 13 Situationally Induced Objectification: Three Relevant Classic Examples; 14 Situationally Induced Heroism: Momentary Transcendence of Objectification; PART FIVE Pathways toward Transformation: Trails Leading Out of Plato's Cave

15 The Problem of Enlightenment16 Theistic and Nontheistic Approaches to Transcending Objectification; 17 Objectification's Antidote: The Enlightenment Spectrum; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-935543-6

0-19-025842-X

0-19-935542-8