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

Vandeputte, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0823290255 ISBN 13: 9780823290253

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2020

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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.

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“This is a fascinating and provocative book, powerfully argued, exegetically adroit, and profoundly suggestive in its implications. Vandeputte offers a series of extraordinarily fine-grained, original, and subtle readings that brilliantly demonstrate how philosophy’s ambivalence about journalism expresses philosophy’s own uneasy relation toward its temporal and historical constitution. It makes us think anew about the ‘new’ and the ‘news’ and about ‘thinking’ itself.”—Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto

“Critique of Journalistic Reason offers a provocative reframing of modern European thought, expanding and redirecting Foucault’s insight into the emergence of 'today' as a post-Kantian philosophical problem.”—Peter Fenves, Northwestern University

An encounter between philosophy and journalism recurs across the modern philosophical tradition. Images of reporters and newspaper readers, messengers and town criers, announcements and rumors populate the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. This book argues that these three thinkers’ preoccupation with journalism cannot be separated from their philosophy “proper” but plays a pivotal role in their philosophical work, where it marks an important nexus between their theories of history, time and language.

Journalism, for the tradition Vandeputte brings to light, figures before anything else as a cipher of the time in which philosophy is written. If the journalist and newspaper reader characterize what Kierkegaard calls “the present age,” that is because they exemplify a present marked by the crisis of the philosophy of history—a time after the demise of history as a philosophizable concept. In different ways, the pages of the newspaper appear in the European philosophical tradition as a site where teleological and totalizing representations of history must founder, together with the conceptions of progress and development that sustain them.

But journalism does not simply mark the end of philosophy; for Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin, journalistic writing also takes on an exemplary role in the attempt to think time and history in the wake of this demise. The concepts around which these attempts crystallize – Kierkegaard’s “instant,” Nietzsche’s “untimeliness,” and Benjamin’s “actuality”—all emerge from the philosophical confrontation with journalism and its characteristic temporalities.

Tom Vandeputte is head of Critical Studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0823290255
• ISBN 13: 9780823290253
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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