Afterword
The afterword situates the encounter between philosophy and journalism against the background of the ancient conflict between the philosopher and the sophist. Drawing on a remark by Kierkegaard, the afterword explores the thought that philosophy may be understood as a “radical journalism”: an attempt to take a question that lies at the root of journalism, its radix, and to follow this through in the most uncompromising manner. This thought is further elaborated through a commentary on a remark in the work of Derrida, who, in a commentary on his newspaper articles of the early 1990s, refers to challenge posed by “the day, precisely, the question or reflection of the day, the resonance of the word today.” This remark is taken as a point of departure to ask what it could mean to do justice to this word, “today,” and attend to an unforeseeable future imminent in the present.