Wolfram Eilenberger: Time of the Magicians, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Time of the Magicians
Buch
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy
- Übersetzung:
- Shaun Whiteside
- Verlag:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 02/2022
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141988580
- Artikelnummer:
- 10398022
- Umfang:
- 418 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 500 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 35 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 24.2.2022
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth century
The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein, scion of one of Europe's wealthiest families, signs away his inheritance, seeking spiritual clarity. Martin Heidegger renounces his faith and aligns his fortunes with Husserl's phenomenological school. Ernst Cassirer sketches a new schema of human culture on a cramped Berlin tram. The stage is set for a great intellectual drama. Over the next decade the lives and thought of this quartet will converge and intertwine, as each gains world-historical significance, between them remaking philosophy.
Time of the Magicians brings to life this miraculous burst of intellectual creativity, unparalleled in philosophy's history, and with it an entire era, from post-war exuberance to economic crisis and the emergence of National Socialism. With great art, Wolfram Eilenberger traces the paths of these titanic figures through the tumult. He captures their personalities as well as their achievements, and illuminates with singular clarity the philosophies each embodied as well as espoused. It becomes an intellectual adventure story, a captivating journey through the greatest revolution in Western thought told through its four protagonists, each with their own penetrating gaze and answer to the question which has animated philosophy from the very beginning: What are we?
Biografie (Wolfram Eilenberger)
Wolfram Eilenberger, geb.1972, ist Korrespondent des Magazins Cicero , langjähriger Kolumnist des Berliner Tagesspiegels , promovierter Philosoph und Autor mehrerer Bücher. Er ist mit einer Finnin verheiratet, Vater von finnisch-deutschen Zwillingen und hat in Finnland nicht nur Philosophie studiert, sondern dort auch in der zweiten finnischen Fußball-Liga gespielt. Von den fünfzehn finnischen Fällen weiß er mittlerweile dreieinhalb fehlerfrei anzuwenden, dafür spricht er ganz ordentlich Schwedisch. Wolfram Eilenberger lebt mit seiner Familie in Toronto/Kanada, Berlin und Koivumäki/Finnland.
Wolfram Eilenberger
Time of the Magicians
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