How propaganda works
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how…
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- Full title :How propaganda works / Jason Stanley.
Summary
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy--particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality--and how it has damaged democracies of the past. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality.
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- Publication Date:©2015.
- Edition:First paperback printing
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, New Jersey
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:xx, 353 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780691173429, 0691173427
- oclc:ocn971075719
- LC Classification:HM1231
- Dewey Decimal:303.375
Table of Contents
Introduction: The problem of propaganda -- Propaganda in the history of political thought -- Propaganda defined -- Propaganda in liberal democracy -- Language as a mechanism of control -- Ideology -- Political ideologies -- The ideology of elites: a case study.
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