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Category: Book

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

The One-Dimensional Man is a work by Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher of the Frankfurt School. Through this militant work, Herbert Marcuse emphasizes that capitalism and liberal democracy are the major […]

In Praise of Liberalism. Remedy for political cynicism and extremist passions.

Liberalism, today, is not looked on favorably. It is indeed being put to the test, between those who use it to justify their cowardly abandonment and those who use it […]

Truth as One and Many

What is truth? This book defends a new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in […]

Public opinion

The 1922 book Public Opinion is Lippman's assessment of functional democratic government and the role of citizens in a democracy ; it examines the dilemmas presented in such a revolutionary […]

Primitive Reflexes

Europe is worried. This is the time to listen to the words of the greatest European philosopher of our time, known for his vigorous thinking and iconoclastic ideas. In four […]

The Crowd: a Psychology of the Popular Mind

Gustave Le Bon delivers a study that remains relevant today. The ideas developed by the author would have inspired democrats such as Roosevelt, Clemenceau, Poincaré, Churchill and de Gaulle, but […]

The post-truth era : Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life

Deception has become the modern way of life. Where once the boundary line between truth and lies was clear and distinct, it is no longer so. In the post-truth era, […]

Toxic Sludge Is Good for You ! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry

This book blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens […]

Social psychology

Jean Stoetzel's book takes stock of research in social psychology, the human science that studies the social conditions of behaviour. After a historical and epistemological introduction, five parts give an […]

Theory of opinions

In the current state of knowledge, we know a lot about survey techniques but we do not know how to answer the question: what is public opinion? This book identifies […]

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