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 Z rich. 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.
This book demands close attention; it rewards rereading; it tackles
big ideas unapologetically. In short, Eilenberger treats you like a
grown-up ... This is a wonderful book
*The Sunday Times*
In his enjoyable book, Eilenberger manages to convey not only his
characters' complicated lives but the convoluted flow of their
endlessly agitated minds ... the ceaseless intellectual questing of
all four makes for fascinating reading.
*Guardian*
This new book does something better: illuminates the times through
which these philosophers developed their ideas - and vice versa -
often drawing poignant parallels and discontinuities between the
women
*Observer*
All four women walked on the outside of power, politics, and
philosophy, which is why their vision of what the world had become
by the middle of the 20th century is so acute. If we want to keep
our minds free in our own our own age of war and ideological
absolutism, we could do worse than to retrace their steps.
*Financial Times*
An exhilarating journey through the lives and thought of four
exceptional women whose effort to make sense of the dark times in
which they lived is an essential compass for understanding our own.
Deeply researched and intimately written, Eilenberger's book is an
intellectual feast
*Lea Ypi*
What was it like to be alive during Hitler's ascent? To read this
vivid, gripping book is to relive that time through four of the
century's most original minds - not just their evolving ideas but
their daily frustrations and fears for the future. To them,
philosophy was as concrete and urgent as food or safety, and
Eilenberger shows you why
*Larissa MacFarquhar*
This is intellectual history at its best - lucid, rigorous and
readable. The Visionaries is a gripping group biography and a
much-needed reminder of the power of philosophy in the face of
rising authoritarianism
*James McAuley*
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