{"product_id":"transfinite-life-oskar-goldberg-and-the-vitalist-imagination-9780253029706","title":"Transfinite Life: Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eOskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Thomas Mann, and Carl Schmitt, among others--with the argument that ancient Israel's sacrificial rituals held the key to overcoming the tyranny of technology in the modern world. Bruce Rosenstock offers a sympathetic but critical philosophical portrait of Goldberg and puts him into conversation with Jewish and political figures that circulated in his cultural environment. Rosenstock reveals Goldberg as a deeply imaginative and broad-minded thinker who drew on biology, mathematics, Kabbalah, and his interests in ghost photography to account for the origin of the earth. Caricatured as a Jewish proto-fascist in his day, Goldberg's views of the tyranny of technology, biopolitics, and the \"new vitalism\" remain relevant to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Rosenstock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253029706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Rosenstock is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the creator and manager of the Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews multimedia digital library, sephardifolklit.illinois.edu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40776894808179,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":101.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_044b5625-d904-4cde-ae81-9f6f840c2b9b.jpg?v=1680271074","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/transfinite-life-oskar-goldberg-and-the-vitalist-imagination-9780253029706","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}