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Randal Marlin (born 1938 in Washington, D.C.) is a Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda. He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, Aix-Marseille University, and the University of Toronto. After receiving a Department of National Defence fellowship to study under propaganda scholar Jacques Ellul at Bordeaux in 1979–1980, he started a philosophy and mass communications class at Carleton called ''Truth and Propaganda'', which has run annually ever since.〔Marlin, Randal. (2002) ''Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion''. Toronto: Broadview Press, p. 10.〕 One of the texts for this class is his 2002 book ''Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion'', which examines historical, ethical, and legal issues relating to propaganda. The revised second edition, released in 2013, examines the Bush administration's use of propaganda based on fear to persuade Americans to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Marlin acknowledges that there are many definitions of propaganda, including favourable ones.〔Marlin, pp. 15–21.〕 However, his book reflects Ellul's view that propaganda suppresses individual freedom and autonomy.〔Ellul, Jacques. (1973) ''Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes''. New York: Vintage Books Edition, p. 256; Marlin, pp. 170–171.〕 In 1998, Marlin published a book examining the public uproar following the appointment of a former separatist Quebec political candidate to the top administrator's post at the new Ottawa Hospital. ''The David Levine Affair: Separatist Betrayal or McCarthyism North?'' criticizes the Ottawa news media for fanning the flames of intolerance in their quest for higher circulations and audience ratings.〔Marlin, Randal. (1998) ''The David Levine Affair: Separatist Betrayal or McCarthyism North?''. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Fernwood Publishing, pp. 8–10 and 156.〕 The book also documents how the media kept the controversy going with a barrage of stories, columns, letters, editorials and radio phone-in shows.〔Marlin, (Levine Affair), pp. 10–11.〕 ''The David Levine Affair'' draws on Marlin's knowledge of propaganda techniques that play on stereotypes as well as pre-existing fears, suspicions and resentments to incite intense emotional reactions.〔Marlin, (Levine Affair), pp. 9 and 15–16.〕 Marlin's studies and teaching in the field of propaganda have earned him the nickname "Ottawa's Orwell".〔 〕 ==Early life and education== Randal Marlin spent his early childhood in Washington D.C. where he was born in 1938. His father worked for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency. The family moved to Montreal in 1946 after his father started working for the United Nations. Marlin moved again to Ampleforth, a Benedictine college and boarding school, in England. "The school ran largely through the authority of the older boys over the younger boys," Marlin recalled during an interview in 2008. "You can see how people abuse power, and I got very interested in things about law."〔Bennett (Grub Street) interview.〕 In 1955, Marlin began four years of university studies at Princeton.〔COVE.〕 He intended to pursue a career in physics, but discovered that he "couldn't really handle the math of nuclear physics in the second year."〔Bennett interview.〕 Fortunately, the university encouraged students to enroll in subjects outside their main fields and Marlin studied Greek philosophy. He also worked as a journalist at the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian where he enjoyed stirring up controversy.〔 Marlin's interest in both philosophy and journalism led him to study the philosophy of language at McGill University. He wrote his thesis on Ernst Cassirer and the phenomenology of language earning an MA degree in philosophy in 1961.〔Bennett interview; COVE.〕 At Trinity College, Oxford he spent two years studying Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and the philosophy of existentialism.〔 In 1963-64, Marlin taught and studied existentialism at the Institute for American Universities at Aix-en-Provence, France.〔 Then in 1964, he began two years of teaching and PhD studies at the University of Toronto.〔 His PhD thesis, completed in 1973, examined problems concerning morality and criminal law.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randal Marlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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