Time of the magicians : Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the decade that reinvented philosophy / Wolfram Eilenberger ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

By:

Eilenberger, Wolfram, 1972-

Contributor(s):

Whiteside, Shaun, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2020Description: 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780525559665
9780525559689

Uniform titles:

Zeit der Zauberer. English

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Time of the magiciansDDC classification:

193 23

LOC classification:

B3181 .E5513 2020

Contents:

Contents I. Prologue: The Magicians The Arrival of God High Fliers Maintaining One's Composure The Davos Myth Human Questions Without Foundation Two Visions At a Crossroads Where Is Benjamin? litark.com +2 barnesandnoble.com +2 search.icpl.org +2 penguinrandomhouse.com +2 search.icpl.org +2 barnesandnoble.com +2 II. Leaps: 1919 What to Do? A Refuge Critical Days Romantic Theses New Self-Awareness Flights The Transformation Ethical Acts A Sorrow Beyond Dreams An Interesting Condition Exposed Flanks A World Without a View The Primal Scientist No Alibi The New Realm Fidelity to the Event German Virtues Unloved Electrified storytel.com +4 barnesandnoble.com +4 search.icpl.org +4 III. Languages: 1919–1920 Figuratively Speaking Viennese Bridges Poetic Precision Against the World Three Dots in The Hague Pictures of Facts The Barber Russell on the Ladder Why the World Does Not Exist Under Pressure The Obscured Gaze Lonely Together Two Oddballs Worlds Ahead The Breakthrough of Authenticity Something in Media Flappers The Task Radical Translation Cult and Sound Goethe in Hamburg The Fundamental Phenomenon The Will to Multiplicity Onward Does the Language Exist? storytel.com +10 barnesandnoble.com +10 catalog.princeton.edu +10 IV. Culture: 1922–1923 A Hut of One's Own Strange Callings Existential Health Check Stormy Weather Wars of Attrition Bad Neighbors Good Neighbors Utopia on the Bookshelf The Outcome of Myth The New Enlightenment Across the River In the Maelstrom The Third Man Goethe in Weimar More Light Freedom or Fate Choice or Decision The Divorced Republic Leap of Salvation Redeeming Transcendence Ruthlessness Three-Quarters Understood In Therapy Top Down search.icpl.org +8 barnesandnoble.com +8 storytel.com +8 V. You: 1923–1925 The Idiot It's Complicated Hospitality From Hamburg to Bellevue Snake Experiments Tunnel and Light Weimar Topples Mighty Fortresses Being an Event You, Demon In the Midst of Being To Think the Hardest Thing Amor Mundi Hunger Cures Goodbye Deutschland Grapes and Almonds New Beginnings catalog.princeton.edu +3 barnesandnoble.com +3 search.icpl.org +3 VI. Freedom: 1925–1927 Red Stars Critical Prologues A Case for Adam Grief Work Remembered Perception Tristes Tropiques Critical Album Palestine or Communism Neighbors To Work Exposing the Question The Time of Dasein Philosophizing with a Hammer: The Study of Equipment Sturm und Angst That Certain Something: Running Ahead into Death The Hamburg School The Hidden Origin Plurality of Outcome Self-Fashioning Through Openness The Fault in Our Stars Out of the Mouths of Babes Engineers of Speech A Little List The Responsibility Principle

Summary: "A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin, whose life is characterized by false starts and unfinished projects, is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a jobbing critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, as a scion of one of the biggest industrial families in Europe, in order to commit himself unswervingly to a life of the mind. Meanwhile, Heidegger, having managed to avoid combat in war by serving instead as a meteorologist, is carefully cultivating his career, aligning himself with the great Edmund Husserl, and renouncing his prior Catholic associations. Finally, Cassirer is working furiously on the margins of academia, applying himself intensely to his writing and the possibility of a career at Hamburg University. The stage is set for a great intellectual drama, which will unfold across the next decade. The lives and ideas of this great philosophical quartet will converge as they become world historical figures. But as the Second World War looms on the horizon, their fates will be very different. Wolfram Eilenberger, internationally-bestselling author, stylishly traces the paths of these remarkable and turbulent lives, which feature not only philosophy but some of the most important economists, politicians, journalists, and artists of the century, including John Maynard Keynes, Hannah Arendt, and Bertrand Russell. In doing so, he tells a gripping story about some of history's most ambitious and passionate thinkers, as well as illuminating with rare clarity and economy their brilliant ideas, which all too often have been regarded as enigmatic or opaque"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	B3181 .E5513 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000193298

Translation of: Zeit der Zauberer. Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, c2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-396) and index.

Contents
I. Prologue: The Magicians

The Arrival of God

High Fliers

Maintaining One's Composure

The Davos Myth

Human Questions

Without Foundation

Two Visions

At a Crossroads

Where Is Benjamin?
litark.com
+2
barnesandnoble.com
+2
search.icpl.org
+2
penguinrandomhouse.com
+2
search.icpl.org
+2
barnesandnoble.com
+2

II. Leaps: 1919

What to Do?

A Refuge

Critical Days

Romantic Theses

New Self-Awareness

Flights

The Transformation

Ethical Acts

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

An Interesting Condition

Exposed Flanks

A World Without a View

The Primal Scientist

No Alibi

The New Realm

Fidelity to the Event

German Virtues

Unloved

Electrified
storytel.com
+4
barnesandnoble.com
+4
search.icpl.org
+4

III. Languages: 1919–1920

Figuratively Speaking

Viennese Bridges

Poetic Precision

Against the World

Three Dots in The Hague

Pictures of Facts

The Barber

Russell on the Ladder

Why the World Does Not Exist

Under Pressure

The Obscured Gaze

Lonely Together

Two Oddballs

Worlds Ahead

The Breakthrough of Authenticity

Something in Media

Flappers

The Task

Radical Translation

Cult and Sound

Goethe in Hamburg

The Fundamental Phenomenon

The Will to Multiplicity

Onward

Does the Language Exist?
storytel.com
+10
barnesandnoble.com
+10
catalog.princeton.edu
+10

IV. Culture: 1922–1923

A Hut of One's Own

Strange Callings

Existential Health Check

Stormy Weather

Wars of Attrition

Bad Neighbors

Good Neighbors

Utopia on the Bookshelf

The Outcome of Myth

The New Enlightenment

Across the River

In the Maelstrom

The Third Man

Goethe in Weimar

More Light

Freedom or Fate

Choice or Decision

The Divorced Republic

Leap of Salvation

Redeeming Transcendence

Ruthlessness

Three-Quarters Understood

In Therapy

Top Down
search.icpl.org
+8
barnesandnoble.com
+8
storytel.com
+8

V. You: 1923–1925

The Idiot

It's Complicated

Hospitality

From Hamburg to Bellevue

Snake Experiments

Tunnel and Light

Weimar Topples

Mighty Fortresses

Being an Event

You, Demon

In the Midst of Being

To Think the Hardest Thing

Amor Mundi

Hunger Cures

Goodbye Deutschland

Grapes and Almonds

New Beginnings
catalog.princeton.edu
+3
barnesandnoble.com
+3
search.icpl.org
+3

VI. Freedom: 1925–1927

Red Stars

Critical Prologues

A Case for Adam

Grief Work

Remembered Perception

Tristes Tropiques

Critical Album

Palestine or Communism

Neighbors

To Work

Exposing the Question

The Time of Dasein

Philosophizing with a Hammer: The Study of Equipment

Sturm und Angst

That Certain Something: Running Ahead into Death

The Hamburg School

The Hidden Origin

Plurality of Outcome

Self-Fashioning Through Openness

The Fault in Our Stars

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Engineers of Speech

A Little List

The Responsibility Principle

"A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin, whose life is characterized by false starts and unfinished projects, is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a jobbing critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, as a scion of one of the biggest industrial families in Europe, in order to commit himself unswervingly to a life of the mind. Meanwhile, Heidegger, having managed to avoid combat in war by serving instead as a meteorologist, is carefully cultivating his career, aligning himself with the great Edmund Husserl, and renouncing his prior Catholic associations. Finally, Cassirer is working furiously on the margins of academia, applying himself intensely to his writing and the possibility of a career at Hamburg University. The stage is set for a great intellectual drama, which will unfold across the next decade. The lives and ideas of this great philosophical quartet will converge as they become world historical figures. But as the Second World War looms on the horizon, their fates will be very different. Wolfram Eilenberger, internationally-bestselling author, stylishly traces the paths of these remarkable and turbulent lives, which feature not only philosophy but some of the most important economists, politicians, journalists, and artists of the century, including John Maynard Keynes, Hannah Arendt, and Bertrand Russell. In doing so, he tells a gripping story about some of history's most ambitious and passionate thinkers, as well as illuminating with rare clarity and economy their brilliant ideas, which all too often have been regarded as enigmatic or opaque"-- Provided by publisher.

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