Time of the Magicians

A tremendous feat of scholarship but also a technical masterpiece, knitting together the four men’s love lives, money troubles, ontological anxieties and the wider ferment of the Weimar republic with uncommon dexterity – Oliver Moody * The Times *
Splendid, highly entertaining, attentive – Jonathan Derbyshire * Financial Times *
Magnificent, elegantly composed and beautifully narrated – David Motadel * The Times Literary Supplement *
Eilenberger’s survey of high thoughts and low politics among German-language philosophers of the 1920s is a salutary tale for today, not just a gripping panorama of century-old dreams and feuds * Economist *
Accessible and deeply human … He draws these four intellectual magi out of the shadows of their writings – John Kaag * The New York Times *
Like any great story, Eilenberger’s is not made up, but retrieved. Events have a way of narrating themselves when they encounter a gifted storyteller – Costica Bradatan * Los Angeles Review of Books *
A book of riches - full of stories as well as ideas, all brought together with a fine light touch – Sarah Bakewell

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.

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