EAN: 9780141988580

TIME OF THE MAGICIANS - WOLFRAM EILENBERGER KAR...

AN ECONOMIST  GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A 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?

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