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Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television / Tamara Chaplin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chaplin, Tamara.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Philosophers--France--Interviews.
Philosophers.
Interviewing on television.
France.
Interviewing on television--France.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:
xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Contents:
Introduction: televising philosophy in postwar France
The cultural politics of philosophical celebrity, 1951-1968
Philosophy and the early television book show, 1953-1968
From educational television to cultural spectacle, 1964-1974
The "new philosophers" and morality for the masses, 1974-1986
Bucking the ratings : Antigone, Abraham, Heidegger, and the Holocaust, 1987-1992
Conclusion: philosophical TV in the 1990s.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-313) and index.
ISBN:
9780226509907
0226509907
9780226509914
0226509915
OCLC:
123029398

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