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Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television
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- Creator
- Tamara Chaplin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226509907, 0226509907, 9780226509914, 0226509915
- OCLC
- ocn123029398
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-313) and index.
- 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