The history of the devil /
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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Minneapolis, MN :
Univocal Publishing,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Translator's Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. The Devil's Childhood; 2.1. His Birth; 2.2. Playing with a Spintop; 2.3. Playing with Cubes; 2.4. Playing of Composing Elements; 3. Lust; 3.1. Life; 3.2. The Cell; 3.3. The Organism; 3.4. Man; 3.5. Sex; 3.6. Nationalism; 3.7. Love for the Mother Tongue; 3.8. Love for Reading and Writing; 4. Wrath; 4.1. Freedom; 4.2. The Law; 4.3. Chance; 4.4. Wrath Revisited; 5. Gluttony; 5.1. The Mechanism; 5.2. The Program; 5.3. Raw Material; 5.4. The Product; 5.5. The Instrument; 5.6. The Feast; 6. Envy and Greed.
- 6.1. Society6.2. Retribution; 6.3. Justice; 6.4. Conversation; 7. Pride; 7.1. Language; 7.1.1. Poetry; 7.1.2. Music and Concrete Poetry; 7.1.3. Painting; 7.1.4. Science; 7.2. Pincers of the Will; 7.2.1. Science as Yoga; 7.2.2. Yoga as Science; 7.3. Contrition; 8. Sloth and the Sadness of the Heart; 8.1. The Voice's Aura; 8.1.1. Structure; 8.1.2. Reencounter; 8.2. The Ivory Tower; 8.2.1. Honesty; 8.2.2. The Purification Bath; 8.2.3. Let Us Not Speak About That; 8.3. Inversion; 8.4. The Bronze Gong; 8.5. Lust Once Again; 9. Post Scriptum; 9.1. They Abound.
