EAN: 9780141998473

EILENBERGER WOLFRAM THE VISIONARIES

'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious  enthralling book: what use is
philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday Times    The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes
Berlin  seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir reimagines
the dance between consciousness and the world outside in a Rouen café. Ayn Rand labours in
Hollywood exile on the novel she believes destined to reignite the flame of liberty in her
adoptive nation. Simone Weil  disenchanted with the revolution's course in Russia  devotes her
entire being to the plight of the oppressed. Over the next decade  one of the darkest in
Europe's history  these four philosophers will conceive in parallel ideas that would circle the
globe in the second half of the century  reshaping it.   The Visionaries follows in its
protagonists' footsteps from Leningrad to New York  Spain at civil war to France under
occupation  as each is uprooted by totalitarianism's ascendence. It shows them facing the
injustices  unfreedom and unfathomable violence of their time as women  refugees  activists 
resistance fighters - but above all as thinkers. Wolfram Eilenberger expertly distils the
radical philosophies each lived as well as created  showing the two to be part of the same
story  all testament to the redemptive power of thought.

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