“Ellul's work is brilliant, thoroughgoing, frightening. Ellul has made many splendid contributions in this book.” - Book Week

Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes Not much has changed over the years. It shows how modern, committed man, surrounded and seized by propaganda, more often than not surrenders himself to it only too willingly, especially in democracies-because he is educated for his rule as dupe. This classic study of propaganda (first published in 1965) has only grown more pertinent and frightening with age. 1957 Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. that when our new technology encompasses any culture or society, the result is propaganda. (1) 'How to Recognize Propaganda' Cold War Era Educational Film ca. 'The theme of Propaganda is quite simply. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is perhaps the most serious threat to humanity operating in the modern world.' - Los Angeles Ellul has made many splendid contributions in this book.'A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. that when our new technology encompasses any culture or society, the result is propaganda. Shils and Morris Janowitz have demonstrated the importance of the group in the face of propaganda the Germans, they claim, did not yield earlier in. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is perhaps the most serious threat to humanity operating in the modern world.”-Los Angeles “The theme of Propaganda is quite simply. “A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. This book appears to be the first attempt to study propaganda from a sociological approach as well as a.

Drawing from his own experiences fighting for the French resistance against the Vichy regime, Ellul offers a unique insight into the propaganda machine. When film and novel, newspaper and television are instruments either of political propaganda in the restricted sense or in that of human relations (social propaganda), culture is perfectly integrated into propaganda as a consequence, the more cultivated a man is, the more he is propagandized. Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965/1973) ( French : Propagandes original French edition: 1962) is a book on the subject of propaganda by French philosopher, theologian, legal scholar, and sociologist Jacques Ellul.

Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ultimately, it’s destructive nature towards democracy. In his book Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes, Ellul diverges from previous scholarship in that he considers propaganda to be a sociological. From one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century, comes a seminal study and critique of propaganda.

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