O último romântico: alguns apontamentos sobre a importância do romantismo alemão na formação do pensamento de Vilém Flusser
This essay is an attempt to place Vilém Flusser’s critique of the apparatus and technique within a broader context and, above all, to reflect on its roots. This approach offers an analysis of some concepts of the philosophy of the early German Romantics, specifically the Jena group, highlighting parallels in Flusser’s work: the importance of the notions of the fragment as an essential element of human thought and the cycle as its expression, demonstrating the precariousness of constructing large philosophical systems. The essay also focuses on the Romantic critique of a linear historical progress as well as on the theory of language, highlighting its poetic potential.
A caminho do nada: a questão do progresso da humanidade ocidental e do papel da língua nas reflexões de Heidegger, Benjamin e Flusser
This essay delineates a strand of philosophical thought which relates the progress of modern humanity leading it to nihilism with the profanation of thought and, thus, with the profanation of language. We map this trend in German philosophy in the interwar period, focusing on Martin Heidegger's text “Nietzsche's word 'God is Dead'” and Walter Benjamin's monograph The Origin of German Tragic Drama. The focus on the concepts of progress and guilt and the metaphysical dimension of our thought and our language seeks to show the importance of these philosophers in Vilém Flusser's early writings and in his articulation of the theory of language.