This seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th. Plus, Im wondering about an Other Feminisms book club. In fact, education is largely identical – the conditioning of minds with vast amounts of incoherent information, already dispensed for ulterior purposes and posing as “facts” and as “education.” Ellul follows through by designating intellectuals as virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons: (1) they absorb the largest amounts of second hand, unverifiable information (2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information (3) they feel themselves capable of “judging for themselves.” They literally need propaganda. Paperback 16.95 Join Reader Rewards About Propaganda. I liked responding to jenniferabankss Natality and moveincircless Feminism Against Progress. On the contrary, he says, education, or what usually goes by that word in the modern world, is the absolute prerequisite for propaganda. Jacques Ellul Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes Paperback Januby Jacques Ellul (Author), Konrad Kellen (Translator), Jean Lerner (Translator) 379 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 79.50 1 Used from 79. Thus he reverses the widespread notion that education is the best prophylactic against propaganda. A related point, central to Ellul’s thesis, is that modern propaganda cannot work without “education”.

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