Eilenberger The Time of the Magicians. The Great Decade of Philosophy. 1919-1929

The historian of ideas and publicist Wolfram Eilenberger (b. 1972), former editor-in-chief of the magazine Philosophie Magazin and program director of the largest philosophy festival in Europe phil.cologne, examines one of the greatest epochs of German-Austrian thought — the 1920s, in detail as if under a microscope, studying not only philosophical creativity but also the lives of four "magicians": Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose fates are intricately interwoven with the tumultuous experiences of the post-war decade.

An impressive intellectual-historical panorama, unlike a textbook on the history of philosophy, an academic study, or a fictionalized biography, combines the best features of all these genres, inviting the reader to make an excursion into the laboratory of thought that became the birthplace of a number of directions in modern philosophy. 

The book received the prestigious Bavarian Book Prize (2018) as well as the Prize for Best Foreign Book in France (2019).