Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
Friday, June 17th, 2011Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
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 Lévy—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 cul
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A fragment from the serie about famous philosophers. Rene Descartes
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