Preservation of our freedom and autonomy will require recognizing its power. Propaganda according to Ellul is a key component of an ever-expanding technological society that escapes our control. The development of sophisticated scientific techniques for manipulating minds along with the use of mass media for applying these techniques on the widest scale has shown its power to effect changes in human personality. For Ellul modern propaganda has gone beyond persuasion as practiced and studied by rhetoricians. Ellul’s pioneering study directed attention away from the perception of propaganda as simply a mechanism for influencing targeted populations, and towards a more pervasive phenomenon affecting our thinking at the deepest, most foundational levels. Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda, first published in French as “Propagandes” in 1962 is a widely studied classic with no sign of diminishing relevance for understanding and dealing with the major social, political and ecological problems in the contemporary world. Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965) The Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological Society If you would like to add a summary of an Ellul book that is not on this page, contact Ted Lewis at Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes For complete publishing information, including original French dates, go to Bibliography for Ellul Books. Dates on this page indicate first printing in English.
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