by Jaap van Ginneken
Amsterdam University Press, 2018
Paper: 978-94-6298-604-6 | eISBN: 978-90-485-3728-0
Library of Congress Classification HN59.B285G56 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 socialpsychology, and the author places Baschwitz’s ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.