1st Edition

How Propaganda Became Public Relations Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public

By Cory Wimberly Copyright 2020
216 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly uses archival materials and wide variety of sources — Foucault’s work on governmentality, political economy, liberalism, mass psychology, and history — to mount a genealogical... Read more

Introduction: From Propaganda to Public Relations



Chapter 1: What Does Propaganda Do?



Chapter 2: Propaganda Contra Liberalism



Chapter 3: The Art and Science of Controlling Minds: The Influence of Political Economy and French Royalism on Public Relations



Chapter 4: Governing Mr. and Mrs. Intelligence Quotient Minus: Lineages of Crowd Psychology in the Governmentality of Propaganda



Chapter 5: Crossing the Atlantic, Propaganda’s New Problematization for Corporate America



Chapter 6: Edward Bernays and the Interacting Forces That Govern Public Opinion



Chapter 7: Grappling With Propaganda Today

Biography



Cory Wimberly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA