Turning On the Mind
French Philosophers on Television
350 pages, 48 halftones 6 x 9
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2007
Cloth $62.50
ISBN: 9780226509907
Published December 2007
Paper $24.00
ISBN: 9780226509914
Published December 2007
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: Portrait of a Philosopher
Introduction: Televising Philosophy in Postwar France
Chapter One
The Cultural Politics of Philosophical Celebrity, 1951–1968
Chapter Two
Philosophy and the Early Television Book Show, 1953–1968
Chapter Three
From Educational Television to Cultural Spectacle, 1964–1974
Chapter Four
The “New Philosophers” and Morality for the Masses, 1974–1986
Chapter Five
Bucking the Ratings: Antigone, Abraham, Heidegger, and the Holocaust, 1987–1992
Conclusion: Philosophical TV in the 1990s
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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