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The Idea of Propaganda
A Reconstruction
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Stanley B. Cunningham
Book Code:
C7445
ISBN:
0-275-97445-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-275-97445-9
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0275974456
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication:
5/30/2002
List Price:
$98.95
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UK Sterling Price: £57.95
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Availability:
In Stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Communications
»
Political Communications
Philosophy
»
Philosophical Theory
Communications
»
Communications (General)
Philosophy
»
Philosophy (General)
Reviews:
...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
February 2003
[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
Autmn 2003
Description:
To understand properly the use of propaganda, it is necessary to move beyond the conventional, largely descriptive treatments that have been the scholarly norm, and to move deeply into a sustained theoretical analysis of the concept in terms of its primary cognitive and ethical deficits. Through a sequential consideration of the epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics of propaganda--that is, one that emerges from a historical review of theories and definitions of the subject--author Stanley B. Cunningham provides a radical new window on a much-discussed discipline. He aims to secure a concept of propaganda that reflects the complexity and sophistication of contemporary mass persuasion practices, while avoiding the trivializations and cliches that mark much of propaganda scholarship.
Utilizing an assortment of philosophical analyses and arguments, Cunningham contends that the culture of propaganda is primarily and originally rooted in a wide range of epistemological disservices--that, indeed, propaganda is neither ethically neutral nor indeterminate, and that its lack of ethics constitutes part of its very definition. Eschewing the methodology of social science, this radical study represents the first-ever systematic and philosophically structured approach in the 80-year history of propaganda analysis.
Table of Contents:
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
LC Card Number:
2001051368
LCC Class:
HM1231
Dewey Class:
303
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