The year is 1933.
Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris.
Simone de Beauvoir reimagines the dance between consciousness and the world outside in a Rouen café.
Ayn Rand labours in Hollywood exile on the novel she believes destined to reignite the flame of liberty in her adoptive nation.
Simone Weil, disenchanted with the revolution’s course in Russia, devotes her entire being to the plight of the oppressed.
Over the next decade, one of the darkest in Europe’s history, these four philosophers will conceive in parallel ideas that would circle the globe in the second half of the century, reshaping it. Join bestselling author Wolfram Eilenberger for a discussion of the radical philosophies each of these thinkers lived as well as created, showing the two to be part of the same story, all testament to the redemptive power of thought.
Wolfram Eilenberger is an internationally bestselling author and philosopher. He is the founding editor of Philosophie Magazin and hosts the television program Sternstunde Philosophie on the Swiss public broadcasting network SRF. His 2018 book Time of the Magicians was an instant bestseller in Germany, as well as in Italy and Spain, and won the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It has been translated into thirty languages. Eilenberger’s new book, The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy is published by Allen Lane (UK)
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Jana Bacevic is assistant professor at Durham University, UK, Associate fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College, and member of the editorial board of The Philosopher. Her work is in social theory, philosophy of science, and political economy of knowledge production, with particular emphasis on the relationship between epistemological, moral, and political elements.
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