A pivotal decade. Book review: Eilenberger W. Zeit Der Zauberer: das grosse Jahrzehnt der Philosophie, 1919–1929 = Time of the magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the decade that reinvented philosophy (Russian translation)
A pivotal decade. Book review: Eilenberger W. Zeit Der Zauberer: das grosse Jahrzehnt der Philosophie, 1919–1929 = Time of the magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the decade that reinvented philosophy (Russian translation)
Makhlin Vitaliy Lvovich – DS in Philosophy, Candidate in Philology, Leading Researcher of the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
W. Eilenberger’s book, written in the philosophical and biographical genre, is about four ‘magicians’ of philosophy of the past
century – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. In Eilenberger’s view, these German-speaking thinkers have had the most lasting influence on contemporary European philosophy and the scientific and humanities disciplines, and at the same time are both ‘existentially’ and ‘socially’ involved in their time.
Keywords
L. Wittgenstein; M. Heidegger; E. Cassirer; W. Benjamin; philosophy of language; cultural history.
