The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger

'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.

Ambitious, enthralling.. this is a wonderful book -- Laura Hackett * The Sunday Times *
The ceaseless intellectual questing of all four makes for fascinating reading -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian *
Illuminates the times through which these philosophers developed their ideas - and vice versa -- Stuart Jeffries * Observer *

Wolfram Eilenberger (Author)
Wolfram Eilenberger is a founding editor of Philosophie Magazin and host of the Sternstunde Philosophie television programme. He has taught philosophy at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, the Berlin University of the Arts and ETH Zürich. His most recent book, Time of the Magicians, was a runaway bestseller on publication in Germany, where it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, as well as in Spain and Italy, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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ISBN 13	9780141998473
Titel	The Visionaries
Autor	Wolfram Eilenberger
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2024-08-15
Seitenanzahl	400
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