@article{1433289,
      recid = {1433289},
      author = {Collins, Brian.},
      title = {Robert Eisler and the magic of the combinatory mind : the  forgotten life of a 20th-century Austrian polymath /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Robert Eisler, the polymathic Jewish Austrian scholar and  Holocaust survivor, faded into obscurity after his death in  1949. A contemporary and associate of Walter Benjamin, Aby  Warburg, and Gershom Scholem, Eisler spent his early years  in fin-de-siècle Vienna and trained as an art historian and  economist. In this book, the first in English devoted to  Eisler's life and thought, Brian Collins takes us through  the development of Eisler's ideas about the philosophy of  values, comparative mythology, Christianity,  psychoanalysis, monetary policy, and anthropology. Collins  also explores the bizarre and sometimes tragic events that  defined Eisler's life, including his arrest for art theft  in 1907, his controversial reconstruction of a physical  description of Jesus, and the fifteen months he spent in  Dachau and Buchenwald, the inspiration for his final book,  Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism,  Masochism, and Lycanthropy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433289},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61229-0},
}