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Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind - The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind - The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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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-siecle
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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