Nazi Fantasy

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

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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