Bloom draws an analogy between the biological material whose primordial multiplication began life on earth and the ideas, or "memes," that define, give cohesion to, and justify human superorganisms.

Anshen's book displays an extensive phenomenology of evil with dispassion, insight & irony. The Devil is seen as no mere medieval curiosity. He's equal to God in power, but not in substance, & a compulsive force in humans & the universe. Dr Ansen reviews the fall of Lucifer & of humanity with an analytical ingenuity that casts Satan, Eve & Cain in roles formidable & provocative for the history & psychology of humankind. Lucifer, before his fall, the author contends, was not evil. Nor was his act of rebellion against God an act of satanic hatred. It was the act of an individualist who rebelled against the fact of being created by one beyond & above himself.

"In The History of the Devil, Flusser frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of view. The phenomenal world, or reality in a general sense, is identified as the Devil, and that which transcends phenomena, or the philosophers' and theologians' reality, is identified as God. Referencing Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its structure, Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of reality, where phenomenon and transcendence, Devil and God become fused and confused. So radically confused, in fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks from the terms Devil and God. At this moment of abysmal confusion, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives"--Publisher's description.