Can I read The Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times on EtoBox?

The Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times by Wolfram Eilenberger, Wolfram Eilenberger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times about?

"A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history's greatest philosophers. In particular, four women whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century-at once in necessary dialogue and striking contrast with one another. Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg before emigrating to the US in 1926, Ayn Rand was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the 20th century. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged would reach the hearts and minds millions of Americans in the decades to come, becoming canonical libertarian texts, which continue to echo today among Silicon

Who reads The Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times?

Author

Wolfram Eilenberger, Wolfram Eilenberger

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593297469

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Major Branches Of Philosophical Study