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Dehumanization or the Disappearance of Pluralism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Denis Duclos
Denis Duclos*
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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The ‘dehuman’ and the inhuman are not, even partially, exterior to the human, as are the material and the living, the animal and the bestial; they represent rather the extremes, the very limits of the human. The inhuman forms the interior facet of the boundary which makes us human and concerns us as such. In that sense, it is never exterior to us.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 49 , Issue 195 , September 2002 , pp. 34 - 37
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