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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.
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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