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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Géraldine Muhlmann (Université Paris IX) , Jean BirrellPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780745644738ISBN 10: 0745644732 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 15 October 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1. Critiquing journalism: a difficult exercise. 1. The public: hostage to journalists. 2. Journalists: hostages to the public. 3. Two poles, two risks. What next? Chapter 2. The notion of 'public', and what can be expected of it. 1. The premises of the notion of 'public': liberal England in the seventeenth century. 2. Kant and the principle of publicity (Offentlichkeit). 3. French Enlightenment and American Enlightenment. 4. The denunciation of the naiveties of the notion of 'public': the problem of the domination of the 'homogenous' in democracy. Chapter 3. A first ideal-critique: the journalist-flâneur. 1. Varying the gaze. 2. An ambiguous and frustrating ideal. 3. Fruitless exasperation: Karl Kraus as a modern Sisyphus. Chapter 4. A second ideal-critique: the journalist-at-war. 1. The journalism of the young Karl Marx (1842-43). 2. The crisis of 1843: towards a radical critique of public space. 3. Journalism, an ongoing problem: Marx as journalist-at-war. Chapter 5. A third ideal-critique: journalism as a 'conflictual unifying' of the democratic community. 1. Gabriel Tarde and an answer to Gustave Le Bon. 2. The sociologists of Chicago (R. E. Park, H. M. Hughes) faced with the reality of an 'integrating' journalist. 3. The risk of myth. 4. Towards a 'conflictual unifying'. Two journalistic acts. Chapter 6. The limits inherent to the figure of the 'spectator', and what they tell us about democracy. 1. The journalism of decentring as the search for the limits of 'seeing'. 2. The Sartrean critique of the position of the spectator. 3. From the gaze to listening. Jean Hatzfeld on the Rwandan genocide. Epilogue.ReviewsMuhlmann's insightful analysis raises the reader's ability to understand the problematic of journalism in contemporary democracies. Choice Muhlmann's insightful analysis raises the reader's ability to understand the problematic of journalism in contemporary democracies. Choice """Muhlmann's insightful analysis raises the reader's ability to understand the problematic of journalism in contemporary democracies."" Choice" Author InformationGeraldine Muhlmann is a Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |