Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television

by Tamara Chaplin

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 L vy--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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226509907
• ISBN13: 9780226509907
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"