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

by Brian Collins

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-si?cle 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030612287
• ISBN13: 9783030612283
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"