Wolfram Eilenberger
Winter 1949: Theodor W. Adorno returns from the USA to a destroyed Frankfurt, Paul K. Feyerabend returns to Vienna wounded in the war. 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.
Wolfram Eilenberger presents his new book Geister der Gegenwart (2024), in which he creates a large panorama of ideas of 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.
Dr. Wolfram Eilenberger is a philosopher, bestselling author(Zeit der Zauberer, 2018 & Feuer der Freiheit, 2020) and former long-time editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazin.
Details:
Date: 30.10.2024
Time: 20:00
Type:
Geister der Gegenwart
The hope of thinking for yourself
Event type:
Geist Heidelberg
Prices plus fees
Regular 11,90 €
Reduced 9,90 €
Member 6,90 €
