LEADER 02980oam 2200421 450 001 9910483309003321 005 20230629231242.0 010 $a3-030-61229-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-61229-0 035 $a(CKB)5460000000008715 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-61229-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6451017 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000008715 100 $a20210610d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRobert Eisler and the magic of the combinatory mind $ethe forgotten life of a 20th-century Austrian polymath /$fBrian Collins 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 157 p. 4 illus.) 311 $a3-030-61228-7 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aRobert 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. 606 $aAnthropology 615 0$aAnthropology. 676 $a301 700 $aCollins$b Brian$g(Brian H.),$01134138 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483309003321 996 $aRobert Eisler and the magic of the combinatory mind$92853999 997 $aUNINA