Gestures

The book "Gestures" (1991) by philosopher and media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) is dedicated to the phenomenology of concrete actions: speaking, writing, crafting, loving, destroying, etc. These actions, or gestures, form the everyday, active being-in-the-world, and behind their analysis, one can discern the silhouette of a phenomenologist in practice. Flusser returns philosophy to the ground: everyday life and the mundane require a philosophical inoculation, which, once received, opens before us the horizons of history, culture, politics, religion, and science.

At the same time, the author focuses on the bodily gesture — a specific movement endowed with meaning and expressing human freedom.