Wolfram Eilenberger | Time of the Magicians

„An intellectual history that largely succeeds in bringing philosophy to life.“ The New York Times

Our choice:
Wolfram Eilenberger‘s „Time of the Magicians“ is a portrait of four remarkable philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Of course, there are countless books by German authors that could also be considered for TOC, but we chose this philosophical book. It revolves around the emergence of modern thought and follows four men who provided different answers to the challenges of their time, played and continue to play an immensely important role in intellectual history, and occupied very different positions on the political spectrum.
Their life stories offer insight into the 1920s, not only laying the foundation for our modern life but also bearing a sometimes unsettling resemblance to our present.

About the author:
Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an award-winning writer and philosopher. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, the ETH Zürich, and Berlin University of the Arts. In 2018, he published “Time of the Magicians” (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages and won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards. The book also received wide critical acclaim.
His book “The Visionaries” (Feuer der Freiheit) was published in 2023 and described the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II – Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand.
2024 he completes the trilogy with a book about Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Paul Feyerabend, and Susan Sontag.

About the Production and Materials

Design and typesetting: Erik Spiekermann
Book jacket design: Susanna Dulkinys
Production: Daniel Klotz
all in Berlin

Letterpress printing: Die Lettertypen Berlin on a 1954 Heidelberg Cyinder
Binding & finishing at Buchbinderei Müller, Leipzig

Book jacket printed on Gmund Cotton Paper
Paper: 90g MetaPaper Rough Air White-Warmwhite
Endpapers: Schabert f.color
Cover linen: Schabert Brillianta

Set in The Future & The Future Mono by Kris Sowersby
FF Real by Erik Spiekermann
368 pp.
ISBN 978-3-949164-09-5

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