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How Propaganda Works (Paperback)
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How Propaganda Works (Paperback)
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Our 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.
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