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괴벨스가 탐독하고 촘스키가 극찬한 선전과 홍보의 고전. 광고와 퍼블리시티를 포괄하는 개념인 PR은 20세기 초에 미국의 아이비 레드베터 리(Ivy Ledbetter Lee)와 에드워드 버네이스(Edward Bernays) 등에 의해 확립됐다. 특히 20세기 초반에 에드워드 버네이스는 PR을 과학적인 학문이자 독립적인 산업으로 정립하는 데 결정적인 공헌을 했다.

이 책에는 제1차 세계대전 후 약 10년간의 다양하고 광범위한 활동이 자세하게 소개되어 있다. 하나같이 창의성이 번득일 뿐만 아니라는 의의 목적과 정직한 실천 전략을 특징으로 하는 당시의 선전 사례를 자세히 조망함으로써 버네이스는 ‘선전’이라는 말에서 나쁜 냄새를 제거하려고 시도한다.

버네이스는 선전을 이용해 대중의 지지를 끌어내는 방법을 보여주면서 ‘선전’의 명예 회복을 시도하고 선전가들이 지켜야 할 윤리 규범도 제시한다. 그럼으로써 은근히 자신의 권위를 세우고 선전의 긍정적 이미지를 부각시켜 자신의 직업에 대한 대중의 호감을 높이려는 시도를 한다. 그래서 이 책은 ‘선전을 위한 너무나 선전적인’ 책이다.

이 책을 통해 버네이스는 ‘선전’을 당시로서는 가장 완전하고 체계적으로 정리해서 보여주었다. 이 책을 읽으면 20세기의 정치적 선전이 전체주의에서 생겨난 것이 아니라 자본주의 국가인 미국의 자유로운 민주주의의 심장에서 탄생했음을 알 수 있다.

"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."-Noam Chomsky

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."-Edward Bernays, Propaganda

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (18911995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed "engineering of consent." During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy." The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.

Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become inregards to organized manipulation of the masses.

This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, PropagandaA seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

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