Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) was a self-taught philosopher. A Jew, he was born in Prague, in the then newly independent Czechoslovakia. Fleeing the Nazis, he emigrated to Brasil in 1940, and settled in São Paulo. Beginning in the 1950s he taught philosophy and functioned as a journalist, before publishing his first book Língua e realidade (Language and Reality) in 1963.
His work was marked in this first phase by discussion of the thought of Martin Heidegger, and by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. This last would play a major role in the transition to the second phase of his work. Having resettled in the South of France in the 1970s, he turned his attention to the philosophy of comunication and of artistic production.
He died in 1991, during a visit to his native Prague.
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