How Propaganda Works (eBook)

Jason Stanley (Autor)

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2015
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6580-2 (ISBN)

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Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Knowledge and Practical Interests, Language in Context, and Know How.

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How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us-not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy-particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality-and how it has damaged democracies of the past.Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States.How Propaganda Works shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2015
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Absentee Ballot • absolute monarchy • acclamation • Accountability • Advertising • African Americans • against democracy • americans • anti-racism • Appeal to emotion • A Theory of Justice • authoritarianism • Bounded Rationality • Carl Schmitt • Catharine MacKinnon • Charles Colson • chivalry • Citizenship of the United States • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Concept • Consideration • Controversy • credibility • Critical inquiry • Criticism • Criticism of democracy • critique • Dan Kahan • dehumanization • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • demagogue • Democracy • democratic ideals • despotism • distrust • Economic planning • Economic Power • Education • Epistemology • Equal Opportunity • Explanation • Falsity • freedom of speech • Good and evil • Gottlob Frege • Governance • Government • Herder • His Family • Hutu • hypocrisy • idealization • Ideal norm • Ideology • Illustration • income • Individual and group rights • inference • inferiority complex • information source • Institution • Intellectual • Intuition • John Rawls • junk science • Language game • Legitimacy (political) • Legitimation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Literature • Lynne Tirrell • Managerial state • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Meritocracy • Milgram experiment • Ministry of propaganda • minority group • Mutatis mutandis • narrative • Nazi Propaganda • Nazism • Negative Liberty • Neoliberalism • Nonviolence • Obedience (human behavior) • obstacle • Oppression • Original Position • Osama bin Laden • Outgroup (cladistics) • Oxford University Press • Patriotism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Political Campaign • Political Liberalism • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • possible world • Preference Relation • Prejudice • Propaganda • Prostitution • Psychology • Public Opinion • public reason • Public sphere • Racial segregation • Racism • Rationality • Reality • Reappropriation • reason • Reasonable Person • Religion • rhetoric • Ruler • Saddam Hussein • self-concept • Self-evaluation • Self-Interest • self-justification • Semantics • Sharing • Shooting of Michael Brown • skepticism • Slavery • Social Justice • Social Movement • Social reality • Social Structure • Society • Sociology • Southern strategy • Speech Act • State of nature • Student • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Tax • terrorism • theory • The Phantom Public • The Philosopher • The Social Contract • Thought • Thought experiment • Universal value • U.S. state • utterance • Value (ethics) • vocabulary • Voting • welfare • white southerners • wishful thinking • world community • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6580-8 / 1400865808
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6580-2 / 9781400865802