The history of the devil / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ; edited by Siegfried Zielinski.
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 Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, and it is the ess...
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| Other title: | História do Diabo. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Minneapolis, MN :
Univocal Publishing,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Univocal.
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| Summary: | 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 Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, 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, The History of the Devil is considered by many to be his first significant work, containing nascent forms of t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781937561574 1937561577 |
| Language: | In English; translated from the Portuguese. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 29, 2015) |