Philosophy of Language
Vilém Flusser
In 1963 Vilém Flusser presented a series of lectures at the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy in São Paulo concerning the philosophy of language. The resulting ten essays would eventually be published in 1965 in the annual magazine of the Brazilian Institute of Technology and Aeronautics, and published here for the first time in book form.
In 1963 Vilém Flusser presented a series of lectures at the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in São Paulo concerning the philosophy of language. The resulting ten essays would eventually be published in 1965 in the annual magazine of the Brazilian Institute of Technology and Aeronautics (ITA), and published here for the first time in book form.
Flusser prepared each lecture as a response to the dialogs that followed the preceding lecture, thereby expanding and explicating his philosophy of language in an intense dialogical process. Despite the fact that the other side of the dialogue was not recorded, it becomes clear to the reader that the resulting discussions and polemics generated by the lectures progressively and profoundly changed Flusser’s intended trajectory for the course. This kind of philosophy in fieri was in part the result of a group effort between all of those present, and subsequently synthesized by Flusser in every essay. As a result of this experience, Flusser adopted this dialogic method as an integral part of his future work.
$24.95 paper ISBN 978-1-937561-53-6
142 pages, 4 9/10 x 7 5/8 , July 2016
Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) is increasingly recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of digital and global culture.
Rodrigo Maltez Novaes has translated a number of titles by Vilém Flusser including Natural:Mind, Post-History, and most recently Immaterial Culture.
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Leonardo Reviews: Philosophy of Language
Leonardo Reviews: Philosophy of Language
Amazingly enough, even in this early work, from 1965, we are finding rhizomes of his latter theories fully connected to contemporary digital discourse, as for example his definition of metaphysics; "there must be a computer that is the computer of all computers" (p. 62/3).