KLI Colloquia - Dehumanization and Essentialism
Maria KRONFELDNER (Central European University, Budapest / Vienna)
2020-12-03 15:00 – 2020-12-03 17:00
זמן ישראל – 16:00-18:00
Dehumanization (i.e. regarding certain people as not human or as less human) and essentialism are clearly connected, in everyday cognition as well as in the history of those sciences that study humans, and that have, as part of that, often naturalize(d) social inequalities. In the talk, I want to deepen the understanding of how essentialism and dehumanization generally connect (independent of sciences), in order to discuss with the KLI community – on the basis of the talk – how sciences (past and present) stabilize dehumanization.