Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

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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