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Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 01/2021
Edizione: 1st ed. 2021





Trama

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.






Sommario

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

 





Autore

Brian Collins is the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy at Ohio University, USA.












Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9783030612283

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 454 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:XVII, 157 p. 4 illus.
Pagine Arabe: 157
Pagine Romane: xvii


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