Turning On the Mind

French Philosophers on Television

By: Tamara Chaplin

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Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In 1951, the eight o'clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century, more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its practitioners--including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault, Lyotard, and Levy--had aired on French television. According to Tamara Chaplin, this enduring commitment to bringing the most abstract and least visual of disciplines to the French public challenges our very assumptions about the incompatibility of elite culture and mass media. Indeed, it belies the conviction that television is inevitably anti-intellectual and the quintessential archenemy of the book.
Chaplin argues that the history of the televising of philosophy is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. Linking this history to decolonization, modernization, and globalization, "Turning On the Mind "claims that we can understand neither the markedly public role that philosophy came to play in French society during the late twentieth century nor the renewed interest in ethics and political philosophy in the early twenty-first unless we acknowledge the work of television. Throughout, Chaplin insists that we jettison presumptions about the anti-intellectual nature of the visual field, engages critical questions about the survival of national cultures in a globalizing world, and encourages us to rethink philosophy itself, ultimately asserting that the content of the discipline is indivisible from the new media forms in which it has found expression.

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"Anyone who wants to understand the unique role that philosophy continues to play in contemporary France can now read Tamara Chaplin's superbly documented study of philosophy on French TV. For American readers, Turning On the Mind raises a host of serious issues for comparison and debate." - Alice Kaplan, author of French Lessons"

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: Portrait of a Philosopher
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
Bibliography
Index
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