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The Idea of Propaganda - A Reconstruction

English · Hardback

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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.

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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


About the author

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).

Summary

Using various philosophical analyses and arguments, this work contends that the culture of propaganda is primarily rooted in a range of epistemological disservices - that propaganda is neither ethicly neutral nor indeterminate, and that its lack of ethics composes its very definition.

Product details

Authors Stanley B. Cunningham, Cunningham Stanley B.
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 7 to 17
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2019
 
EAN 9780275974459
ISBN 978-0-275-97445-9
No. of pages 248
Weight 510 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics

Propaganda, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political control and freedoms, Politics, Law, and Government

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