Transfinite Life : Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Series .
- New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Series .
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.