Time of the Magicians, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy by Eilenberger, Wolfram -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents I. Prologue (the Magicians)

The Arrival of God High Fliers Maintaining One’s Composure The Davos Myth Human Questions Without Foundation Two Visions At a Crossroads Where Is Benjamin? Fail Better Does My Life Need a Goal? The One-Man Republic

II. Leaps (1919)

What to Do? A Refuge Critical Days Romantic Theses New Self-Awareness Flights The Transformation Ethical Acts A Sorrow Beyond Dreams An Interesting Condition Exposed Flanks A World Without a View The Primal Scientist No Alibi The New Realm Fidelity to the Event German Virtues Unloved Electrified

III. Languages (1919–1920)

Figuratively Speaking Viennese Bridges Poetic Precision Against the World Three Dots in the Hague Pictures of Facts The Barber Russell on the Ladder Why the World Does Not Exist Under Pressure The Obscured Gaze Lonely Together Two Oddballs Worlds Ahead The Breakthrough of Authenticity Something in Media Flappers The Task Radical Translation Cult and Sound Goethe in Hamburg The Fundamental Phenomenon The Will to Multiplicity Onward Does the Language Exist?

IV. Culture (1922–1923)

A Hut of One’s Own Strange Callings Existential Health Check Stormy Weather Wars of Attrition Bad Neighbors Good Neighbors Utopia on the Bookshelf The Outcome of Myth The New Enlightenment Across the River In the Maelstrom The Third Man Goethe in Weimar More Light Freedom or Fate Choice or Decision The Divorced Republic Leap of Salvation Redeeming Transcendence Ruthlessness Three-Quarters Understood In Therapy Top Down

V. You (1923–1925)

The Idiot It’s Complicated Hospitality From Hamburg to Bellevue Snake Experiments Tunnel and Light Weimar Topples Mighty Fortresses Being an Event You, Demon In the Midst of Being To Think the Hardest Thing Amor Mundi Hunger Cures Goodbye Deutschland Grapes and Almonds New Beginnings

VI. Freedom (1925–1927)

Red Stars Critical Prologues A Case for Adam Grief Work Remembered Perception Tristes Tropiques Critical Album Palestine or Communism Neighbors To Work Exposing the Question The Time of Dasein Philosophizing with a Hammer: The Study of Equipment Sturm Und Angst That Certain Something: Running Ahead into Death The Hamburg School The Hidden Origin Plurality of Outcome Self-Fashioning Through Openness The Fault in Our Stars Out of the Mouths of Babes Engineers of Speech A Little List The Responsibility Principle A Fainting Fit

VII. Arcades (1926–1928)

Technical Talent For Gods Alone A Circle Without a Master Much to Learn You Still Have Instability Moscow or Bust The Hell of Other People A Man Without a Framework Party for One High Seas In the Eye of the Storm An Emergency in Frankfurt Individual and Republic Building Work Age of the Demon After Being Foundation and Abyss Back to the Origin Homecoming Dizzy Heights

VIII. Time (1929)

Slaloming Among People On the Eve Relax! Verbal Storms: The Davos Debate Licking Wounds Spring Awakenings The Three-Hundred-Penny Opera The Doors Breathless Gaslight The Self-Destructive Personality Hot Dogs The Hiker A Day Off Internal Difficulties Back to the Everyday Naples in Cambridge Useful Reminders The City of Words Against the Wall

Epilogue Photographs Acknowledgments List of Works Notes Selected Bibliography Credits Index About the Author

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