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

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

An impressive intellectual-historical panorama, unlike any anthology on the history of philosophy, any academic study, or any fictional biography, combines the best features of all these genres, inviting the reader to take an excursion into the laboratory of thought that became the birthplace of a whole series of movements in modern philosophy. 

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