Kunst som propaganda

Aufgang der Arzney-Kunst

Aufgang der Arzney-Kunst, translated by CHRISTIAN KNORR VON ROSENROTH. Facsimile reprint with contributions by WALTER PAGEL and FREDHELM KEMP, Munich, Kosel-Verlag, 1971, 2 vols., pp. 1414, illus., £37.50. Reviewed by Marianne Winder, Assistant Librarian, Wellcome Institutefor the History of Medicine. J. B. Van Helmont's works were published posthumously under the title Ortus Medicinae in Latin...

Propaganda in Soviet Russia

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

Propaganda and credulity

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

Soviet Propaganda Posters

Propaganda: Its Psychological Aspect

The essence of the art of propaganda is to influence people to believe and do things which they would not believe or do without the effect of propaganda. It is therefore a form of suggestion? suggestion, in its narrow sense, meaning a tendency for the human 'find to accept something communicated to it as a fact in the absence of any logical grounds for its acceptance.