Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger

Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929

Wolfram Eilenberger

432 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a jobbing critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away ...

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