Wolfram Eilenberger Collection 2 Books Set (The Visionaries [Hardcover] & Time of the Magicians)
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The Visionaries [Hardcover]
Time of the Magicians
Wolfram Eilenberger Collection 2 Books Set (The Visionaries [Hardcover] & Time of the Magicians):
The Visionaries [Hardcover]:
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.
Time of the Magicians:
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.
Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an internationally bestselling, award-winning writer and philosopher.
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.
In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally. The book also received wide critical acclaim in the US and UK.
Eilenberger has been a prolific contributor of essays and articles to many publications, among them Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and El País. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, the ETH Zürich and Berlin University of the Arts.
His new book The Visionaries (Feuer der Freiheit) will be published in the US by Penguin Random House in August 2023 and describes 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.
Eilenberger is one of the program directors of the phil.cologne, Germany’s biggest philosophy festival, and moderator of the TV program Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss Television). He also holds a DFB football trainer’s licence and appears regularly as a soccer expert on German TV and radio.
He is married to the linguist and former Finnish national basketball player Pia Päiviö, and he lives with his family in Berlin.