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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wolfram Eilenberger , Shaun WhitesidePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Allen Lane Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.639kg ISBN: 9780241537374ISBN 10: 0241537371 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 08 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn 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. -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian * Eilenberger is a German philosopher, writer, broadcaster and a gifted storyteller ... 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. -- Lyndsey Stonebridge * 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 In his enjoyable book, Eilenberger manages to convey not only his characters' complicated lives but the convoluted flow of their endlessly agitated minds. Rand may come across as intolerably egocentric, and De Beauvoir as little better, even if she was soon to become a founder of modern feminism - but the ceaseless intellectual questing of all four makes for fascinating reading. -- Caroline Moorehead * Guardian * 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 Author InformationWolfram 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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