A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler

A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler

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A podcast about the life and work of Robert Eisler.

A Very Square Peg. Bonus Episode: A Discussion with Brian Collins

August 31, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Marshall Poe

Today I talked with Dr. Brian Collins, the creator of "A Very Square Peg." We talked about: --How he discovered Eilser in a used bookstore in Ann Arb…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 9: Vanity of Vanities

August 4, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau w…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 8: A Very Difficult Man to Kill

July 28, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

Following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March of 1938, Robert Eisler wrote to Oxford asking about being appointed to the Wilde Readersh…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 7: The Christ Vision

July 21, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

Robert Whitehead of London, a self-described “Business Man” who was “no Churchman and not a Jesus worshipper, much as I admire him,” wrote to Robert E…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 6: Negative Interest

July 14, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

Warning: Economics. In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washin…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 5: The Slavonic Josephus

July 7, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 4: Women’s Coats and Beach Cabanas

June 30, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode, we examine the rivalry/friendship between Eisler and the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and reassess Eisler’s infa…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 3: Eisler vs. the Flat Earth

June 23, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence …

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory

June 16, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Belle…

A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 1: Man into Wolf

June 9, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins

In this episode, we discuss how I discovered Robert Eisler’s Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy an…