This book brings together Vilém Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser is viewed today by many scholars as the most original theoretician of media and photography in the second half of the twentieth century, and yet this is the first monograph about him in English.
This book brings together Vilém Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser is viewed today by many scholars as the most original theoretician of media and photography in the second half of the twentieth century, and yet this is the first monograph about him in English.
Amos Morris¿Reich is the Geza Roth Chair of Modern Jewish History and a professor in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. His research intersects 19th¿ and 20th¿century Jewish and science and technology history.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part One - Reality as a Possibility Life as an Alternative Reality as a Realization of Possibility The "Apparatus" and the Logic of Freedom Jewish Writings Part Two - The Human-Animal Interface as a Horizon of Interpretation Biological Themes before Vampyroteuthis Infernalis Vampyroteuthis Infernalis as a "Nazi Fantasy" Excursus: The Science Fiction of Holocaust Survivors: A Comparison with Stanislaw Lem Vampyrotheutis Infernalis and the Question of Evil Part Three - The Rationality of Biology and the Stupidity of Nazism The Apolitical Perspective The Political Perspective Conclusion
Introduction Part One - Reality as a Possibility Life as an Alternative Reality as a Realization of Possibility The "Apparatus" and the Logic of Freedom Jewish Writings Part Two - The Human-Animal Interface as a Horizon of Interpretation Biological Themes before Vampyroteuthis Infernalis Vampyroteuthis Infernalis as a "Nazi Fantasy" Excursus: The Science Fiction of Holocaust Survivors: A Comparison with Stanislaw Lem Vampyrotheutis Infernalis and the Question of Evil Part Three - The Rationality of Biology and the Stupidity of Nazism The Apolitical Perspective The Political Perspective Conclusion
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