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Discover Ludwig'dehumanization' is a correct and usable word in written English
You could use it to describe the process of taking away someone's sense of humanity, e.g.: "The dehumanization of prisoners through inhumane treatment is an ongoing issue in many parts of the world."
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dehumanization
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The act or process of dehumanizing
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To thinkers as politically different as Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx, technology seemed to lead to dehumanization of the worker and to exercise of a new kind of tyranny over human life.
In it Radishchev depicted social conditions as he saw them, particularly the dehumanization of the serfs and the corruption of their masters, warning that these threatened the stability of the existing order.
What Christ accomplished once and for all must be appropriated freely by those who are "in Christ"; their goal is "deification," which does not mean dehumanization but the exaltation of humans to the dignity prepared for them at creation.
With others in the Generation of 1927, he embraced a "rehumanization" of poetry, as opposed to the "dehumanization" José Ortega y Gasset had described in his 1925 essay "The Dehumanization of Art".
Alphabetical Order (1976) concerns the dehumanization that occurs when a chaotic newspaper office is transformed by an overly efficient employee.
Prior to 1848, Marx used the Hegelian idea of estrangement (which Hegel had used in a metaphysical sense) to indicate the alienation of the worker from the enjoyment of the products of his labour, the crass treatment of human labour as a mere commodity and human beings as mere things, and the general dehumanization of individuals in a selfish, profit-seeking capitalist society.
November 23, 1834 Port Glasgow, Scotland June 3, 1882 London, England James Thomson, pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, or B.V. (born Nov. 23, 1834, Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scot. died June 3, 1882, London), Scottish Victorian poet who is best remembered for his sombre, imaginative poem "The City of Dreadful Night," a symbolic expression of his horror of urban dehumanization.
#EmanuelAME Church offered a place of worship and escape from Jim Crow dehumanization.
The contradiction between slavery and the ideology of human equality, accompanying a philosophy of human freedom and dignity, seemed to demand the dehumanization of those enslaved.
He wrote Under the Hill (1959), the completion of an unfinished romance by Aubrey Beardsley; English Governess (1960; also published as Harriet Marwood, Governess), a parody of Victorian pornography; and The Fatal Woman (1974), a collection of three novellas that explore the dehumanization of sexual fantasies.
In both parts, he may have been liberated by dehumanization — the makeup, and so on — but his most touching recent role is almost too human: the village boy who loses his fiancée to a returning veteran in Alexei Ratmansky's "On the Dnieper".
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