Amos Morris-Reich
Amos Morris-Reich holds the Geza Roth Chair in Modern Jewish History and is a professor in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Ideas in Tel Aviv University, Israel. His forthcoming book “Nazi Fantasy”: Vilém Flusser and History as Site of Experiment (New York and London: Routledge, 2025) is due to appear in April 2025.
Articles of Amos Morris-Reich
Retreat from Nihilism
This article attempts to elaborate Flusser’s “logic of freedom” as related to nihilistic strains of thought found in his early writings. I suggest that Flusser conceptualizes freedom as partial and narrow, responsive, and negative. Freedom is only possible within, with regard to, and in opposition to the “apparatus” or a coercive order. Underlying this reconstruction is the question about the connection between this logic and the nihilistic strains of thought found in his early writings. I show that the nucleus of the later logic can already be found in these same early writings. Consequently, I argue, the “logic of freedom” should be read as an answer to, and a retreat from, the nihilistic orientation.
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