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The Age of the Magicians: The Golden Decade of Philosophy (1919-1929)
The Age of the Magicians: The Golden Decade of Philosophy (1919-1929)
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The 1920s was an era between colorful life and economic crisis, an era when World War I had just ended and Nazism was brewing, and a golden age of German philosophy.
Martin Heidegger's career skyrocketed and he fell in love with Hannah Arendt. The stumbling Walter Benjamin fell madly in love with a Latvian anarchist on the island of Capri, and it was this love that turned him into a revolutionary.
The genius Wittgenstein was the son of a billionaire. He was known as the God of Philosophy in Cambridge. However, such a gifted man came to a remote area of Upper Austria to work as a rural primary school teacher and lived a life of complete poverty. Finally, there was Ernst Kessier, who experienced rising anti-Semitism firsthand a few years before moving to a middle-class district in Hamburg.
In addition to sorting out the different daily lives, emotional experiences and ideological conditions of Heidegger, Benjamin, Wittgenstein and Kessier from 1919 to 1929, this book also strives to put the thoughts of the four philosophers into perspective and show them. It describes their respective answers and coping methods when facing the fundamental issues of the times. With the author's excellent narration, we see the roots of today's world in the life paths and revolutionary ideas of these four outstanding philosophers. Looking back at the 1920s, we are both enlightened and alert.
Martin Heidegger's career skyrocketed and he fell in love with Hannah Arendt. The stumbling Walter Benjamin fell madly in love with a Latvian anarchist on the island of Capri, and it was this love that turned him into a revolutionary.
The genius Wittgenstein was the son of a billionaire. He was known as the God of Philosophy in Cambridge. However, such a gifted man came to a remote area of Upper Austria to work as a rural primary school teacher and lived a life of complete poverty. Finally, there was Ernst Kessier, who experienced rising anti-Semitism firsthand a few years before moving to a middle-class district in Hamburg.
In addition to sorting out the different daily lives, emotional experiences and ideological conditions of Heidegger, Benjamin, Wittgenstein and Kessier from 1919 to 1929, this book also strives to put the thoughts of the four philosophers into perspective and show them. It describes their respective answers and coping methods when facing the fundamental issues of the times. With the author's excellent narration, we see the roots of today's world in the life paths and revolutionary ideas of these four outstanding philosophers. Looking back at the 1920s, we are both enlightened and alert.
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