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This 2004 enlarged edition includes a new chapter “The New Enemy” with 32 pages of color illustrations This enlarged edition is available only from Sam Keen. The combination of the book Faces of the Enemy and the PBS documentary “The Faces of the Enemy: and the 3 lectures — The Art of Enemy Making; The New Enemy; Beyond Enmity — provide all of the essentials for a high school or college course on prejudice, propaganda and the language of warfare. Examines the techniques of propaganda used to teach us “to hate all the people our relatives hate.” Some 400 posters and cartoons show how enemies are dehumanized by portraying them as enemies of god, barbarians, terrorists, sadists and aggressors so that we will be able to kill without remorse or pity. “An essential document of our time.” Joseph Campbell “Vivid and jolting, this book is a major new contribution to the literature of the psychology of war and hence to the prevention of the final epidemic..While Keen writes with a disarmingly calm grace, both the pictures and his verbal images arrest us so that we are forced to explore more deeply the ugliest of human attributes.” Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr Neil Elgee “An eloquent meditation on the nature of hatred–how we degrade the hated person, nation, or race into an ugly symbol; how we therefore can annihilate the symbol as an act of erasure without considering that we are, in fact, killing the children of mothers and fathers…Sam Keen deserves the qualifying adjective, philosopher. His book is an eloquent act.” Herbert Gold
