Kurt Baschwitz: a Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology

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Amsterdam University Press, Jan 23, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 360 pages
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.

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Kurt Baschwitz: Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology
Jaap van Ginneken
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About the author (2018)

Ginneken Jaap: Jaap van Ginneken (b. 1943, Hilversum) studied social psychology, with mass psychology and mass communication as collateral subjects in Amsterdam, and did a Ph. D. with distinction on the history of political and mass psychology. He taught part-time at the (then) 'Baschwitz' Institute within the Political and Social Science Faculty; later at the Department of Communication Science. At the same time, he did a wide range of media projects, mostly on science communication. He is the author of 25 full-length/ single-author books: half aimed at larger audiences, half purely academic; half only in Dutch, half translated into English and other languages.

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TitleKurt Baschwitz: a Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology
AuthorJaap Ginneken
Editionillustrated
PublisherAmsterdam University Press, 2018
ISBN9048537282, 9789048537280
Length360 pages
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