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Flusser<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Translated by
Rodrigo Maltez Novaes</span><br style="margin: 0px;
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Edited by
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26); font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> In 1939, a young
Vilém Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of
Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him
only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethe’s<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px;">Faust</em>. Twenty-six years later, in
1965, Flusser would publish<span
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0px; padding: 0px;">The History of the Devil</em>, and it
is the essence of those two books that haunts his own. From
that time his life as a philosopher was born. While Flusser
would later garner attention in Europe and elsewhere as a
thinker of media culture,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The History of the
Devil</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
considered by many to be his first significant work,
containing nascent forms of the main themes that would come
to preoccupy him over the following decades.</p>
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0px; padding: 0px;">The History of the Devil</em>, Flusser
frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of
view. The phenomenal world, or “reality” in a general sense,
is identified as the “Devil,” and that which transcends
phenomena, or the philosophers’ and theologians’ “reality,”
is identified as “God.” Referencing Wittgenstein’s<span
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0px; padding: 0px;">Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in its structure,
Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an
existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of
reality, where “phenomenon” and “transcendence,” “Devil” and
“God” become fused and confused. So radically confused, in
fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks
from the terms “Devil” and “God.” At this moment of abysmal
confusion, and of the downfall of all values, we must make
the existential decisions that give direction to our lives.
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