Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television /

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Author / Creator:	Chaplin, Tamara.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophers -- France -- Interviews. Interviewing on television -- France. Interviewing on television. Philosophers. France. Interviews.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6638809

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ISBN:	9780226509907 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226509907 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226509914 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226509915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-313) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: Portrait of a Philosopher
Introduction: Televising Philosophy in Postwar France
Chapter 1. The Cultural Politics of Philosophical Celebrity, 1951-1968
Chapter 2. Philosophy and the Early Television Book Show, 1953-1968
Chapter 3. From Educational Television to Cultural Spectacle, 1964-1974
Chapter 4. The "New Philosophers" and Morality for the Masses, 1974-1986
Chapter 5. Bucking the Ratings: Antigone Abraham, Heidegger, and the Holocaust, 1987-1992
Conclusion: Philosophical TV in the 1990s
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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