Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface to the First Edition......Page 12
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
DEFINITION......Page 23
TWO MAJOR PROPAGANDA THEORISTS: GEORGE ORWELL AND JACQUES ELLUL......Page 33
PLAN OF THE BOOK......Page 49
INTRODUCTION......Page 54
ATHENS......Page 55
ROME......Page 62
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA......Page 64
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 65
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH......Page 67
LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS......Page 72
BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN WORLD WAR I......Page 74
LENINIST PROPAGANDA......Page 90
NAZI PROPAGANDA......Page 94
WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT DAY, IN BRIEF......Page 102
CONCLUSION......Page 103
INTRODUCTION......Page 110
OVERVIEW......Page 111
DEVICES INVOLVING LANGUAGE MANIPULATION......Page 118
NON-VERBAL TECHNIQUES......Page 137
CONCLUSION......Page 154
INTRODUCTION : WHAT IS ETHICS?......Page 158
ETHICAL THEORIES......Page 159
THE MORALITY OF LYING......Page 163
MISLEADING WITHOUT ACTUALLY LYING......Page 183
THE ETHICS OF COMMUNICATION......Page 185
ON THE ETHICS OF PROPAGANDA......Page 191
CONCLUSION: PROPAGANDA AND AUTONOMY......Page 197
ADVERTISING......Page 202
PUBLIC RELATIONS ETHICS......Page 214
CONCLUSION......Page 231
INTRODUCTION......Page 236
JOHN MILTON......Page 238
JOHN STUART MILL......Page 241
MODERN COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: A FREE AND OPEN ENCOUNTER?......Page 255
ADDITIONAL FREE SPEECH ARGUMENTS......Page 257
CONCLUSION......Page 263
CONTROLS ON HATE PROPAGANDA......Page 266
ADVERTISING......Page 271
GOVERNMENT CONTROLS ON THE MEDIA......Page 287
THE MEDIA CONTROLS ITSELF......Page 296
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION......Page 300
ADDENDUM, 2012......Page 314
THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROMISE OF THE INTERNET......Page 326
UNCERTAINTIES AND NEGATIVE FEATURES......Page 333
STRATEGIES FOR DEMOCRATIZING THE NET......Page 338
PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS......Page 354
CONCLUSION......Page 358
Bibliography......Page 364
Index......Page 374