The Haunted Present
Adorno, Sontag, Foucault, Feyerabend and the Ends of Philosophy
$54.60
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2027
Summary
The grand finale of Eilenberger’s gripping narrative of philosophy across the twentieth century.
The year is 1949. Theodor Adorno returns from New York to bombed-out Frankfurt, tasked with finding enlightenment from within ruin. Susan Sontag is reborn in San Francisco. Michel Foucault attempts suicide, again, in Paris. Paul Feyerabend, crippled by a war wound, recircles his native Vienna. The war’s aftermath calls for the world to be remade, and over the coming decades this quartet of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241768112 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024176811X |
| Author: | Wolfram Eilenberger |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Time of the Magicians and The Visionaries – - * - *
Eilenberger is a German philosopher, writer, broadcaster and a gifted storyteller – Lyndsey Stonebridge * Financial Times *
Eilenberger weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit – Ivan Hewett * Sunday Telegraph *
Eilenberger’s survey of high thoughts and low politics … is a salutary tale for today, not just a gripping panorama of century-old dreams and feuds * Economist *
Wolfram Eilenberger
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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