Propaganda Jacques Ellul
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- 1965
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- Propaganda, Journalism, Censorship, Pressitute, Fake News, Mind Control, Mithridatization, Brainwashing, Sensibilization, Just enough, MSM, hate speech, manipulation, lies, spin, narrative, wwg1wga
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From one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century, comes a seminal study and critique of propaganda. 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. Drawing from his own experiences fighting for the French resistance against the Vichy regime, Ellul offers a unique insight into the propaganda machine.
Most people are easy prey for propaganda, Ellul says, because of their firm but entirely erroneous conviction that it is composed only of lies and "tall stories” and that, conversely, what is true cannot be propaganda. But modern propaganda has long disdained the ridiculous lies of past and outmoded forms of propaganda. It operates instead with many different kinds of truth— half truth, limited truth, truth out of context.
"About 90 percent of the population is 'politically inert'; they become active only accidentally, when they are set into motion, but they are normally 'inactive, inattentive, manipulable, and without critical faculty'
"I could give a hundred examples of complete distortion of facts by competent and honest journalists, whose interpretative articles appear in serious newspapers.
"Propaganda thus displaces and liberates feelings of aggression by offering specific objects of hatred to the citizen..."
It can be "very difficult to determine what constitutes propaganda in our world and what the nature of propaganda is. This is because it is a secret action."
Propaganda is a kind of invisible glue that holds a modern technological society together in various ways dictated by many different kinds of sources including political, economic, spiritual, cultural, nationalistic often oppositonal...
"A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, [Ellul] 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 . . . that when our new technology encompasses any culture or society, the result is propaganda . . . Ellul has made many splendid contributions in this book.”—Book Week
Jacques Ellul was born in Bordeaux in 1912. A Graduate in Jurisprudence in 1936, he thereafter taught in French universities until he was discharged by the Vichy regime. He then joined and fought in the Resistance. After France’s liberation, while attached to the city government of Bordeaux, he was named Professor at the law school there. In 1947, he was appointed to a chair in law and social history at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. His increasing reputation as a significant social and political philosopher was first established in the United States by the publication here of The Technological Society (1964), Propaganda (1965), and The Political Illusion (1967).
Table of contents :
Chapter 1 — The Characteristics of Propaganda
1. External Characteristics
2. Internal Characteristics
3. Categories of Propaganda
Chapter II — The Conditions for the Existence of Propaganda
1. The Sociological Conditions
2. Objective Conditions of Total Propaganda
Chapter III — Necessity for Propaganda
1. The State’s Necessity
2. The Individual’s Necessity
Chapter IV — Psychological Effects of Propaganda
Psychological Crystallization
Alienation through Propaganda
The Psychic Dissociation Effect of Propaganda
Creation of the Need for Propaganda
The Ambiguity of Psychological Effects
Chapter V — The Socio-Political Effects
1. Propaganda and Ideology
2. Effects on the Structure of Public Opinion
3. Propaganda and Grouping
4. Propaganda and Democracy
Appendix I — Effectiveness of Propaganda
1. Difficulties of Measuring Propaganda
2. Ineffectiveness of Propaganda
3. Effectiveness of Propaganda
4. The Limits of Propaganda
Appendix II — Mao Tse-Tung’s Propaganda
1. The War: From 1926 to 1949
2. Since 1949
3. Brainwashing
Footnotes
Bibliography
Biography
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The author was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and longtime Professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux, France. His groundbreaking and extensively footnoted insights very much changed how we might choose to look at propaganda. He dissects the purposes and methods in current use and raises a red flag to all who will listen. This is not just a dry academic treatise, there is much here for the layman to discover.
He was a prolific writer that authored more than 60 books and hundreds of articles, mostly in French. His most important titles have been translated into English. The format is the e-book friendly one-up single pages, not the double pages seen elsewhere.
He was a prolific writer that authored more than 60 books and hundreds of articles, mostly in French. His most important titles have been translated into English. The format is the e-book friendly one-up single pages, not the double pages seen elsewhere.
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