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Kurt Baschwitz is één van de grote pioniers van de psychosociale wetenschap. Hij stichtte de eerste naoorlogse van de journalistenopleiding, legde de basis voor 'communicatiewetenschap & mediastudies' aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, en was medeoprichter van de roemruchte '7e' faculteit voor Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen aan de universiteit van Amsterdam. In het begin van de 20e eeuw werkte hij als journalist in Hamburg en vanaf 1916 vanuit het neutrale Rotterdam. Na WO I werd hij hoofdredacteur van een gezaghebbende weekblad in Duitsland. Na de machtsovername door Hitler vluchtte hij naar Amsterdam. Hij werd medewerker van het nieuwe Internationale Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) en 'privaatdocent' aan de universiteit. In de oorlog werd hij bij een razzia opgepakt, gedeporteerd naar Westerbork, maar kwam weer vrij. Na de oorlog werd hij de eerste hoogleraar Perswetenschap. Hij is de auteur van boeken over fascinerende onderwerpen als 'e massa' en de 4P's: Pers, Propaganda, Politiek en 'Persecuties' (vervolgingen), die stuk voor stuk geïnspireerd waren door zijn eigen dramatische ervaringen. Maar de 'aartsvader' dreigt ten onrechte te worden vergeten. Jaap van Ginneken vult deze leemte met de plaatsing van de unieke betekenis van het wetenschappelijk werk van Baschwitz in de geschiedschrijving van de sociale wetenschappen ingebed in een boeiend beschreven historische context

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886—1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science and social psychology, and the author places Baschwitz's ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface /Ginneken, Jaap van --1. Introduction --2. 1886-1914: Youth and First Journalism --3. 1914-1918: War and Propaganda --4. First Book: On Mass Propaganda and Enemy Images --5. 1919-1933: The Weimar Republic and the Mass Press --6. Second Book: On the Mass Press and Newspaper Audiences --7. 1933-1939: Exile and Mass Politics --8. Third Book: On Mass Politics and Parliamentary Democracy --9. 1940-1945: Hiding From Mass Persecution --10. Fourth and Later Books: On Mass Persecution and Extermination --11. 1946-1957: Founder of Institutions --12. International Role --13. 1958-1968: Retirement Years --14. Conclusion --Epilogue --Appendix --Acknowledgements --About the Author --References --Index

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886–1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science and social psychology, and the author places Baschwitz's ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.

This essay, as a section out of the history of the Newspaper-Press, deals with the collaboration between agitational papers and street-terrorism on the basis of characteristic examples. The author draws a distinction between partial and absolute terrorism. In the case of the former, a minority by means of intimidation with violence, presses the majority and their prominent leaders to political actions which in all human probability they would never have decided upon on their own initiative.The American War of Independence is quoted as an example, or rather the deeds of violence which, as practised by a radical minority, influenced the course of event.A sketch is then given of the importance of the American Press, at that time in its infancy, with regard to the political successes of the young government, both at home and abroad.As an instance of absolute terrorism, the reign of terror of the French Revolution is taken. There the terrorists themselves seized the power. A survey is given of the various agitational papers and their methods, Their development is described up to the institution of a press-dictatorship by Napoleon Bonaparte. Finally the attention is drawn to the causes of the intimidating effect of the War-Press in times of political tension, all of which is based on historical instances taken from the latter half of the 19th century.The essay endeavours to prove that in social-psychological descriptions it frequently occurs that insufficient attention is paid to the part played by coercion and intimidation.The periodical press offers adequate information to permit of ascertaining the leading ideas and their modifications during agitated times. At the same time, its pages reveal the modifications in the views of the leading men and their influence on the masses.Accurate and specialized research on the basis of similar material taken from the history of the Newspaper-Pres, will complete and justify many a theory on mass-passions and mass-disturbances of reason in the field of social psychology.