Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television /

Chaplin, Tamara.

Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television / Tamara Chaplin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

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Philosophers--France--Interviews.
Interviewing on television--France.

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