The Freedom of the Migrant : Objections to Nationalism / Vilem Flusser, Kenneth Kronenberg, and Anke K. Finger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991, author.

Kronenberg, Kenneth, 1946- author.

Finger, Anke K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Germany--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Nationalism--Germany.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, [2003]

Summary:

Vilem Flusser was one of the most fascinating and original European thinkers of the late twentieth century. In this collection of his essays on emigration, nationalism, and information theory, he raises questions about the viability of ideas of national identity in a world whose borders are becoming increasingly arbitrary and permeable. Flusser argues that modern societies are in flux, with traditional linear and textual epistemologies being challenged by global circulatory networks and a growth in visual stimulation. Beyond globalization, Flusser's ideas about communication and identity are rooted in the Judeo-Christian concept of self-determination and self-realization through recognition of the other.

Contents:

The challenge of the migrant

On the alien

We need a philosophy of emigration

To be unsettled, one first has to be settled

Planning the unplannable

From guest to guest worker

Thinking about nomadism

Nomads

Building houses

"How goodly are your tents, Jacob"

Ex-perience

Reunification or networking?

Does the French nation still exist?

Exile and creativity

Conversation between Vilém Flusser and Patrick Tschudin.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780252028175

0252028171

OCLC:

1435754503