InhaltsangabeAcknowledgements vi Preface viii Part one: An introduction to the phenomenology of television Prologue: Heidegger's teacup 3 1. What is phenomenology? 5 2. Available world 14 3. Available self 27 4. Available time 39 5. Turning on the TV set 60 6. Television and technology 78 Part two: Television and the meaning of live 7. The meaning of live 93 8. How to talk - on radio 107 9. How to talk - on television 128 10. The moment of the goal - on television 153 11. Being in the moment: the meaning of media events 177 12. Catastrophe - on television 191 13. Television and history 209 Notes 225 References 245 Index 253