![]() ![]() Photo: Jacques Ellul taught at the Institute for Political Studies in Bordeaux, France, from 1937 until 1980, gaining international fame as a critic of technology's effect on society. One has to wonder what Ellul, who died in 1994, would have made of the internet's long reach. Central in Ellul’s thesis, is that modern propaganda cannot work without education he thus reverses the widespread notion that education is the best prophylactic against propaganda. Mass media provides the link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. Selected excerpts from Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, without commentary. ![]() ![]() In 1947 he was appointed professor of social history at the. He was born in Bordeaux in 1912, attended first the University there, then the University of Paris where he took his doctorate in law. ![]() Born in Bordeaux, France, Ellul received a doctorate in the history of law and social science in 1936 from the University of Bordeaux. Jacques Ellul is a deeply respected lay theologian in the (Protestant) Reformed Church of France, and also professor of law and history at the University of Bordeaux. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed, precisely because it creates a constant environment. Jacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, is one of the foremost and widely known contemporary critics of modern technological society. It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ![]()
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