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Title
Robert Eisler and the magic of the combinatory mind : the forgotten life of a 20th-century Austrian polymath / Brian Collins.
ISBN
9783030612290 (electronic bk.)
3030612295 (electronic bk.)
3030612287
9783030612283
9783030612283
3030612287
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
9783030612283
10.1007/978-3-030-61229-0 doi
Call Number
CT3990.E37
Dewey Decimal Classification
943.6051092
Summary
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.
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PrefaceAcknowledgements About the Author List of Figures 1. Introduction: Man into Wolf 2. Vienna and Value Theory 3. The Turn to Art History: Aloïs Riegl, Giovanni Morelli, and the Udine Incident 4. 'Ladies' Coats and Beach Cabanas in Light of the History of Religion:' Cosmology, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin 5. Orphism, the Afikoman, and Conflicts with Hamburg Circle 6. The King Who Did Not Reign: The League of Nations and the Slavonic Josephus 7. Negative Interest: The Dual Currency Model and the Journey to America 8. Dreamwork: The Fourth Gospel, Eranos, and the Turn to Psychoanalysis 9. Dachau and Buchenwald 10. Vanity of Vanities: Astrology, Ecclesiastes, and Last Days in England 11. Conclusion: Man into Wolf Revisited; or, The Method and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind Appendix: Timeline of Eisler's Life and Publications.
