Revisiting ‘the Problem of the Devil’…
In 1965, when Flusser’s A História do Diabo [The History of the Devil] was first published, Vilém Flusser claimed the book was his effort to come to terms with ethics. To many readers, though, both now and then, the book seems to be less about ethics than about death. This is what I call ‘the problem of the devil’. In what follows, I try to come up with a few explanations why we ought to return to the book of the devil and verify what we have taken for granted.
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