Critique of Journalistic Reason - Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper

Informationen zum Autor Tom Vandeputte is head of Critical Studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, where he teaches continental philosophy and critical theory. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, where he is preparing a book on the political thought of Walter Benjamin. Klappentext This book examines philosophy's recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations | vii Morning News: Kant, Hegel | 1 1 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 19 2 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 72 3 Last Days: Benjamin | 121 Afterword: "Today" | 175 Acknowledgements | 183 Notes | 185 Bibliography 223 Index | 237

Product details

• Authors: Tom Vandeputte
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2020
• EAN: 9780823290260
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-9026-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science