Defense Date
3-12-2007
Graduation Date
Spring 1-1-2008
Availability
Worldwide Access
Submission Type
dissertation
Degree Name
PhD
Department
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Pat Arneson
Committee Member
Calvin L. Troup
Committee Member
Ronald C. Arnett
Keywords
Advertising Effectiveness, Integrated Dualism, Integrated Marketing Communication, Intellectual Immaturity
Abstract
This study examines increasing consumer suspicion in light of contemporary marketing praxis. Immanuel Kant's concept of "self-inflicted intellectual immaturity" is traced throughout 20th century marketing literature. A review of the public relations practices of Edward Bernays reveals a close similarity to recent concepts of integrated marketing communication (Schultz). This project contrasts marketing communication approaches grounded in mass psychology with the rational choice model of consumer behavior.
These dualistic viewpoints are often regarded as mutually exclusive; however, this author proposes an "integrated dualism" of marketing communication to provide consumers with ways to redeem rhetorical "tokens" (Mayhew) that constitute the managerial rhetoric (Sproule) of advertising. "Integrated dualism" constitutes an economic as well as ethical response to the multiplicity of the postmodern marketplace.
Format
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Assmus, D. (2008). On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for Marketing Communication: Examining Consumer Suspicion toward Advertising (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/15