Critique of Journalistic Reason: Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper by Tom

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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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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, in 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.

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations | viiMorning News: Kant, Hegel | 11 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 192 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 723 Last Days: Benjamin | 121Afterword: "Today" | 175Acknowledgements | 183Notes | 185Bibliography 223Index | 237

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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 UniversityThis 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

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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

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Discussions about the role of journalism and news media are central to contemporary political debates; this book sheds a light on the way in which their significance has been interpreted philosophically.

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Discussions about the role of journalism and news media are central to contemporary political debates; this book sheds a light on the way in which their significance has been interpreted philosophically.

Details ISBN0823290255 Author Tom Vandeputte Pages 272 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823290255 ISBN-13 9780823290253 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-09-01 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title Critique of Journalistic Reason Language English UK Release Date 2020-09-01 AU Release Date 2020-09-01 NZ Release Date 2020-09-01 US Release Date 2020-09-01 DEWEY 070.4 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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