Considers the meaning of propaganda from a historical and philosophical viewpoint, offering a sustained theoretical approach to the concept.
Introduction The Problem of Defining Propaganda The Notion of Propaganda The Utility of the Notion of Propaganda Approaches to the Concept of Propaganda Approaching Propaganda Through Definitions and Classifications Beyond Definitions: Approaching Propaganda Through Method The Philosophy of Propaganda The Epistemology of Propaganda The Ethics of Propaganda The Metaphysics of Propaganda Moving Beyond Propaganda Responding to Propaganda: An Ethical Enterprise Conclusion References
STANLEY B. CUNNINGHAM is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is the co-author and co-editor of Television Advertising in Canadian Elections: The Attack Mode, (1993).
.,."a comprehensive theoretical inquiry into the manipulation of
symbols in order to achieve mass persuasion....This impressive
piece of scholarship should prove useful to any reader with a
serious interest in the subject. Upper-division undergraduates
through faculty and professionals."-Choice
?...a comprehensive theoretical inquiry into the manipulation of
symbols in order to achieve mass persuasion....This impressive
piece of scholarship should prove useful to any reader with a
serious interest in the subject. Upper-division undergraduates
through faculty and professionals.?-Choice
?[b]reathes desperately needed life into an oxygen starved concept,
freeing propaganda from its long isolation within communication
theory and releasing it into the wide-open air of philosophical
inquiry....Cunningham contributes significantly to propaganda
analysis by identifying challenges to the concept's utility and
analyzing approaches that have missed the mark. More important, he
provides a ground-breaking, eleven-point reconsituation of
propaganda, summarizing how and why it inverts the higher epistemic
order. In doing both of these things, he succeeds using precisely
the kind of virtuous intellectual conduct he claims propagandists
reject. Keeping "truth" as his goal, his result is far from being
simply more propaganda about propaganda; it is discourse clearly
the service of greater knowledge, reflection and real
understanding.?-Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
"Ýb¨reathes desperately needed life into an oxygen starved concept,
freeing propaganda from its long isolation within communication
theory and releasing it into the wide-open air of philosophical
inquiry....Cunningham contributes significantly to propaganda
analysis by identifying challenges to the concept's utility and
analyzing approaches that have missed the mark. More important, he
provides a ground-breaking, eleven-point reconsituation of
propaganda, summarizing how and why it inverts the higher epistemic
order. In doing both of these things, he succeeds using precisely
the kind of virtuous intellectual conduct he claims propagandists
reject. Keeping "truth" as his goal, his result is far from being
simply more propaganda about propaganda; it is discourse clearly
the service of greater knowledge, reflection and real
understanding."-Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
..."a comprehensive theoretical inquiry into the manipulation of
symbols in order to achieve mass persuasion....This impressive
piece of scholarship should prove useful to any reader with a
serious interest in the subject. Upper-division undergraduates
through faculty and professionals."-Choice
"[b]reathes desperately needed life into an oxygen starved concept,
freeing propaganda from its long isolation within communication
theory and releasing it into the wide-open air of philosophical
inquiry....Cunningham contributes significantly to propaganda
analysis by identifying challenges to the concept's utility and
analyzing approaches that have missed the mark. More important, he
provides a ground-breaking, eleven-point reconsituation of
propaganda, summarizing how and why it inverts the higher epistemic
order. In doing both of these things, he succeeds using precisely
the kind of virtuous intellectual conduct he claims propagandists
reject. Keeping "truth" as his goal, his result is far from being
simply more propaganda about propaganda; it is discourse clearly
the service of greater knowledge, reflection and real
understanding."-Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
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