How Propaganda Works, by Jason Stanley
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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.
How Propaganda Works, by Jason Stanley - Amazon Sales Rank: #438696 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x 1.10" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 376 pages
How Propaganda Works, by Jason Stanley Review Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers"[T]he book crackles with brilliant insights and erudition, while also managing to explain the arcane preoccupations of analytic philosophy in a way that's accessible to a wider audience."-Bookforum"How Propaganda Works deserves huge praise and should be read by anyone who cares about politics and language. Its trove of tools and insights is impossible to completely summarise here."--The National"As with other books that expose hidden patterns in American political life from a great height (those that come to mind are Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow), the lofty perspective of How Propaganda Works challenges researchers to fill in gaps with more detailed, particular explanations of how and why."--Stephen Siff, Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly"Rich and thoughtful. . . . The best way to fight propaganda is to become savvier about how it manipulates, how it actually works, as Stanley does in his work."--Desmog Canada"Brilliant and incisive."--Survival: Global Politics and Strategy"[A] timely and important work that contributes a good deal of theoretical understanding to a crucial yet relatively neglected topic of inquiry."--Spinwatch"A book uniquely suited to its time. . . . An example of political philosophy at its finest."--Voegelinview"Stanley tracks propaganda's history across continents and through decades, illuminating its power to make people vote against their own best interests. And what he has found is [that] the words being used may be as important as the politics behind them."--Nick Osbourne, Boston Globe"Citing examples ranging from historical racism in America to Citizens United, Stanley's critique of propaganda and ideology will only prove more influential as public and political opinion is further polarized. . . . [A] useful examination of propaganda's pervasiveness."--Kirkus Reviews
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"Jason Stanley's How Propaganda Works is a novel and significant contribution that should revitalize political philosophy."--Noam Chomsky
"Filled with compelling examples, this book examines what propaganda is and what threat bad propaganda poses for democracy. The case it makes--which is conceptual, normative, historical, and empirical--is persuasive and provocative. Stanley is tackling an important topic that many philosophers ignore but shouldn't."--Tommie Shelby, author of We Who Are Dark
"This ambitious book brings Stanley's insights from epistemology and philosophy of language to bear on the self-masking role of propaganda in democracy. Generous use of concrete political applications enliven the book's arguments and drive home the topic's normative importance."--Rae Langton, University of Cambridge
About the Author 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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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Not What One Might Expect - a very short review/disclaimer By David P Each successive generation is abound with new information extolling the machinery of propaganda and how it works. Stanley's analysis is not in the mechanical disposition of Bernays, but belongs to an unusual canon of philosophy nestled between the analytic and continental traditions. You're less likely to find reference to Walter Lippmann than you are to Ludwig Wittgenstein or Victor Klemperer; it is a really unconventional, flawed, but necessary read. It opens, as one might expect, with the exemplar of propaganda: the Third Reich. The initial pages aren't circumscribed to Goebbels and his propaganda ministry, but to the syntactic structure of language that was typical of the regime's public addresses, ordinances, and policies. Our introduction to the world of propaganda might seem a little pat to cushion it in the folds of totalitarianism; however, Stanley is not at all interested in demarcating the moral degrees of propaganda - to any inquiring mind, as far as he's concerned, the truth is the truth. Stanley provides numerous examples of propaganda, from the pre-Christian era to the present day, where deft exploitation of the language inscribed in Detroit's municipal legislation saw the severance of water and electricity across its urban territories. Stanley's work, though, is not a chronology of the excesses of propaganda and its permutations throughout the ages, but a thorough evaluation of its epistemology. Bearing this in mind, one ought not to be surprised that this is largely an exercise in philosophy, as opposed to political science. This is closer in tone to Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent," a text that stands at the crossroads between political analysis and linguistics, than to the foundational work of Bernays or Lippmann. I must admit that my initial response to the book was one of disappointment, but that was due to my anticipation of its content. It's not that my expectations weren't met, rather they were reserved for a different book. I am not a philosophy major, but have pursued the discipline privately for years; however, those unfamiliar with subjects like the semantic meaning of language would do better to invest their time with Wittgenstein, Kripke, Quine, Searle, et al, before reading this. Those who have a passing understanding of the analytic tradition will likely appreciate what it's going for. This certainly isn't, despite its unassuming title, an easy book to read. If you are interested in reading about propaganda in the sense generally understood, then I'd recommend the authors previously mentioned, especially Lippmann and Chomsky. To Stanley's credit, though, this isn't a deliberately obscure work, but the culmination of intellectual trends in 20th and 21st century philosophy and sociology. I recommend it all the same.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Merchants of Doubt for the 2016 Election Cycle By E. THOMPSON I am just starting to read this book. Right up there with MERCHANTS OF DOUBT (the book) I think. Just different.
11 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Plodding, deeply opinionated, and uninteresting By Herbert Gintis I read this book after watching online a debate at Yale on free speech. Stanley defended the position that the contemporary college student Left in the US is not endangering free speech by demanding that people with whose opinions they disagree with be fired, punished, or "reeducated." I though his arguments were awful (as did the audience, as it turns out). The online discussion did not reveal the philosophical arguments behind his position. So I checked out a recent book he published.Jason Stanley is a true Manichean. All political opinions are objectively true or false, left-wing opinions being generally True and all the rest being objectively False. People have real interests, he says, whether or not they recognize what they are, ideology distorts these interests through propaganda, giving people even in our liberal democracy "flawed ideologies" that lead to non-progressive ideas and behaviors. Jason Stanley, of course, does not have any flaws in his perception of political and social behavior, which allows him to write this book.Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously exclaimed in a debate: "You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts." Not so for Stanley, for which opinions, like facts, are either right or wrong, and propaganda is an attempt to get people to have wrong (Stanley likes the term "flawed") opinions (read: different from Stanley's).I am used to Manicheans on the right, who see everything completely black and white, and if you disagree with them, you are Evil. Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and many others on the American right are of this type. Jason Stanley can join them, the only difference being their black is his white, and vice versa.So let me be clear on the weakness of his position. Some opinions are of the nature of facts, and it is illegitimate and flawed to hold them. I do not have the right to hold the opinion that two plus two equals five, that the Holocaust did not happen, or that most Mexican immigrants to the US are rapists. But many opinions are not matters of fact, but rather of value. One need not adhere to some rigid fact vs. value dichotomy to assert that one can legitimately hold the position that taxation that supports social welfare expenditures is bad. One can therefore adhere to a social philosophy, or ideology if you prefer the term, that holds some opinions that do not contract the facts, that differs from y social philosophy or that of Jason Stanley.
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