Time of the Magicians

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-949164-09-5
Verlag: TOC Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 09, 366 Seiten

Reihe: TOC Publishing

Wolfram Eilenberger‘s „Time of the Magicians“ is a portrait of four remarkable philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Of course, there are countless books by German authors that could also be considered for TOC, but we chose this philosophical book. It revolves around the emergence of modern thought and follows four men who provided different answers to the challenges of their time, played and continue to play an immensely important role in intellectual history, and occupied very different positions on the political spectrum.
Their life stories offer insight into the 1920s, not only laying the foundation for our modern life but also bearing a sometimes unsettling resemblance to our present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eilenberger, Wolfram

Über Autor(innen)

Eilenberger, Wolfram
Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an award-winning writer and philosopher. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, the ETH Zürich, and Berlin University of the Arts. In 2018, he published “Time of the Magicians” (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages and won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards. The book also received wide critical acclaim.
His book “The Visionaries” (Feuer der Freiheit) was published in 2023 and described the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II – Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand.
2024 he completes the trilogy with a book about Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Paul Feyerabend, and Susan Sontag.