The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology, Melvin J. Lasky provides a major overview. His research runs the gamut of material found in newspapers, from the trivial to the profound, from pseudo-science to habits of solid investigation.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first attacks deficiencies in grammar and syntax with examples from newspapers...
The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a thr...
This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's TheLanguage of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language, and as "a joy to read." When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and in its trenchant analysis of their systematic debasement of language in the face of obligatory platitudes and compulsory euphemisms.
Lasky documents the growing crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and independent journalism...
This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's TheLanguage of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study i...
A generation of outstanding European thinkers emerged out of the rubble of World War II. It was a group unparalleled in their probing of an age that had produced totalitarianism as a political norm, and the Holocaust as its supreme nightmarish achievement. Figures ranging from George Lichtheim, Ignazio Silone, Raymond Aron, Andrei Amalrik, among many others, found a home in Encounter. None stood taller or saw further than FranCois Bondy of Zurich. In a moving tribute to his friend, Melvin J. Lasky, long- time editor of Encounter, writes, -Bondy was a breathtaking spectacle....
A generation of outstanding European thinkers emerged out of the rubble of World War II. It was a group unparalleled in their probing of an age that h...
Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a -brilliant- and -original- study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky's incisive analysis of journalistic usage and misusage gauges both the cultural and political health of contemporary society as well the declining standards of contemporary journalism.
As in the first two volumes, Lasky's scope is cross-cultural with special emphasis...
Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a ...
The most comprehensive study of ideology and utopia since Karl Mannheim's work of the 1930s, Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning classical political theory on its head or, perhaps, inside out. Instead of the usual summary of how English radical theologies contributed to the revolutionary process, Lasky shows how such political theology of the mid-seventeenth century became the backbone of the natural history of revolutionary disasters. In a remarkable feat of scholarship in intellectual history, Lasky charts the course of this historic entanglement over some five turbulent...
The most comprehensive study of ideology and utopia since Karl Mannheim's work of the 1930s, Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning cla...
A featured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"-Mel, you have won In his extraordinary account of thefinal days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoningof a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of Europeandemocracy, Melvin J. Lasky. It is unlikely that any comparable memoir willbe written, since Lasky's career spanned the entire history of wartime andpostwar Germany,
A featured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"-Mel, you have won In his extraordinary account of t...
Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental TheLanguage of Journalism, a three-volume series that has been praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky's incisive analysis of journalistic use and misuse of language measures the cultural and political health of contemporary society as well the declining standards of contemporary journalism.
Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental TheLanguage of Journalism, a three-volume series that has been praised as a "brill...
This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's TheLanguage of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language, and as "a joy to read." When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and in its trenchant analysis of their systematic debasement of language in the face of obligatory platitudes and compulsory euphemisms.
Lasky documents the growing crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and independent journalism...
This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's TheLanguage of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study i...
