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Perspectives of Philosophy: Philosophy of Media

Divna Vuksanović ; University of Art in Belgrade, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

Text re-actualizes Adorno’s question “why still philosophy” in contemporary time. The starting point for this re-questioning of the perspectives of philosophy reflects the very meaning of philosophy for both the present and the future time. The context that evokes this question points to the possible research of the relationships between philosophy and market economy. The interpretation arises from external factors that challenge the meaning and importance of philosophy. That challenge is a side-effect of the competition between philosophy and the type of knowledge that is characteristic for science and technology. Such a validation of philosophy is coupled with the dominant so-called media culture. Belief that philosophy will overpower the logic of market and successfully “resist corporatism” leads to the next crucial question – what philosophy should be like? One of its developmental possibilities, especially in the field of critique and critical thinking, is philosophy of media, which is recognized as relatively new perspective opened to philosophical thought of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. This dimension of research, which establishes connections between philosophy, the media, and the medium of philosophy, is important as a critique of the existing (simulated) reality and as an immanent critique of the medium of philosophy itself (i.e. language). Here is where both potential and real developmental perspectives of philosophy of media could be found.

Keywords

contemporary philosophy; corporatism; science and technology; media; philosophy of media

Hrčak ID:

139100

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139100

Publication date:

27.1.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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