Nazi Fantasy - Vilem Flusser and History As Site of Experiment

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Amos Morris-Reich, Amos (University of Haifa Morris-Reich, Morris-Reich Amos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032893327
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289332-7
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, Historiography, Social and cultural history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust