Sold out: Reading & Talk: Wolfram Eilenberger - Ghosts of the Present

The last years of philosophy and the beginning of a new enlightenment 1948 - 1984

On the hope of thinking for oneself.

Winter 1949: Theodor W. Adorno returns from the USA to a destroyed Frankfurt, Paul K. Feyerabend, wounded in the war, returns to Vienna. Child prodigy Susan Sontag visits Thomas Mann in Los Angeles. The young Michel Foucault commits another suicide attempt in Paris. As a result of the catastrophe of the world war, these four self-thinkers seek their way into a new way of philosophizing. Over the coming decades, they revolutionize the way we think about our society, culture and science. The author presents a great panorama of ideas from the post-war period in the West and tells of the dawn of a new enlightenment that leads directly to the fault lines of our time.

Wolfram Eilenberger is a multi-award-winning German author and philosopher. In his narrative non-fiction books, he combines biography, epochal portraits and philosophy to create a new genre. He was editor-in-chief of "Philosophie Magazin" for many years and presents "Sternstunde Philosophie" on Swiss television. His book "Zeit der Zauberer" is an international bestseller that has been translated into 30 languages and has won many international awards.