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1. On Cynicism, Evil, and the Discovery of Communication in the 1940s.

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Cmiel, Kenneth

Abstract

Discusses United States communication research as it emerged in the 1940s, the successor to propaganda analysis and tributary of modernization theory. Places it in the broader context mid-century American and European social thought. Compares these developments to the work of Hannah Arendt and of Emmanuel Levinas on the sense of difference and nonclosure so important for postmodernism. (SR)

Published
1996

2. History against Itself.

Author

Cmiel, Kenneth

Abstract

Contends that the results of a survey of historians indicate a profession divided within itself. Maintains that cultural diversity was considered one of the "best" and "worst" attributes of contemporary U.S. society. Discusses the concept of progress and its current historical interpretations. (CFR)

Published
1994

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