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Transfinite Life : Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Jewish Philosophy and Thought SeriesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253030160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transfinite LifeDDC classification:
  • 181.06
LOC classification:
  • BM755.G565.R674 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- TRANSFINITE LIFE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Hans Driesch and the Revival of Naturphilosophie -- 2 Georg Cantor and the Mathematics of God -- 3 Goldberg's Ontology and Unger's Politics and Metaphysics -- 4 The Reality of the Hebrews and YHWH's Battle for the Earth -- 5 Gershom Scholem, Oskar Goldberg, and the Meaning of Jewish History -- Conclusion: Ghosts and the Vitalist Imagination -- Appendix I: Thomas Mann's Critique of The Reality of the Hebrews -- Appendix II: Franz Joseph Molitor's Philosophie der Geschichte and Oskar Goldberg's Kabbalah Interpretation -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Caricatured as a Jewish proto-fascist in his day, Goldberg's views of the tyranny of technology, biopolitics, and the "new vitalismremain relevant to this day.
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Cover -- TRANSFINITE LIFE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Hans Driesch and the Revival of Naturphilosophie -- 2 Georg Cantor and the Mathematics of God -- 3 Goldberg's Ontology and Unger's Politics and Metaphysics -- 4 The Reality of the Hebrews and YHWH's Battle for the Earth -- 5 Gershom Scholem, Oskar Goldberg, and the Meaning of Jewish History -- Conclusion: Ghosts and the Vitalist Imagination -- Appendix I: Thomas Mann's Critique of The Reality of the Hebrews -- Appendix II: Franz Joseph Molitor's Philosophie der Geschichte and Oskar Goldberg's Kabbalah Interpretation -- Bibliography -- Index.

Caricatured as a Jewish proto-fascist in his day, Goldberg's views of the tyranny of technology, biopolitics, and the "new vitalismremain relevant to this day.

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