Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television /

Chaplin, Tamara.

Turning on the mind : French philosophers on television / Tamara Chaplin. - Chicago, Ill. : Bristol : University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2008. - 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chaplin argues that the history of televising philosophy is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. She claims that we must acknowledge the work of television in order to understand the public role that philosophy played in 20th-century France and plays in the world today.

Specialized.

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

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