Regarding the Face of Others: Social Difference and Inhuman Sympathy

by Charlie Samuya Ceric

What happens when we encounter the other's face? When we look away from their pained expression, what remains of human bonds? What possibilities does otherness hold for rethinking human interactions? Regarding the Face of Others: Social Difference and Inhuman Sympathy examines the extraordinary meanings that arise from experiences of abjection in modern life, including racialization. disfuguration, and dehumanization. In this utterly original and discipline-defying book, Charlie Samuya Veric takes a long hard look at defacements that result from social difference to imagine alternative ways of human becoming. By looking at faces that resist recognition, Veric recovers the potential for rethinking human relationships. He argues that in the presence of faces that are rendered inhuman, we get closer to realizing new forms of ethical world-making with those who look different from us.

306 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2025