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The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism

The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism 145 Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0023 Flusser, Vilem. The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism. Edited and Introduction by Anke K. Finger. Transl. Kenneth Kronenberg (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 106 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-02817-5) "The settled person has a clear and distinct concept of historical time, but one that falsifies the concrete experience of time. Only after we have broken out of our walls, which tag us with three coordinates and the coordinate of date, will we be able to experience time again." (Vilem Flusser) Vilem Flusser is just beginning to be discovered in the English-speaking world thanks to a spate of recent translations. The Freedom of the Migrant is a collection of his essays and articles from the 1970s through the early 1990's. A German-Jewish philosopher from Prague, Flusser fled the Nazis via London to Brazil where he wrote a daily newspaper column, took up a professorship in the "philosophy of communications" at the University of Sao Paulo, and returned to live in France in 1972. He died in a car crash outside of Prague in 1991. He wrote in several languages; the selections in this volume have all been translated into English from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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145 Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0023 Flusser, Vilem. The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism. Edited and Introduction by Anke K. Finger. Transl. Kenneth Kronenberg (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 106 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-02817-5) "The settled person has a clear and distinct concept of historical time, but one that falsifies the concrete experience of time. Only after we have broken out of our walls, which tag us with three coordinates and the coordinate of date, will we be able to experience time again." (Vilem Flusser) Vilem Flusser is just beginning to be discovered in the English-speaking world thanks to a spate of recent translations. The Freedom of the Migrant is a collection of his essays and articles from the 1970s through the early 1990's. A German-Jewish philosopher from Prague, Flusser fled the Nazis via London to Brazil where he wrote a daily newspaper column, took up a professorship in the "philosophy of communications" at the University of Sao Paulo, and returned to live in France in 1972. He died in a car crash outside of Prague in 1991. He wrote in several languages; the selections in this volume have all been translated into English from

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Published: Dec 1, 2016

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