The history of the devil / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ; edited by Siegfried Zielinski.
| Author/creator | Flusser, Vilém |
| Other author | Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez. |
| Other author | Zielinski, Siegfried. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Univocal Publishing, [2014] |
| Description | xxi, 218 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | História do Diabo. English |
| Series | Flusser Archive collection Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991. Flusser Archive collection. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introduction -- The Devil's childhood -- Lust -- Wrath -- Gluttony -- Envy and greed -- Pride -- Sloth and the sadness of the heart -- Post scriptum. |
| Abstract | "In The History of the Devil, 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 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 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, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives"--Publisher's description. |
| General note | Translation of: História do Diabo. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014943771 |
| ISBN | 9781937561222 |
| ISBN | 1937561224 |
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