{"product_id":"the-visionaries-arendt-beauvoir-rand-weil-and-the-power-of-philosophy-in-dark-times-9780593297452","title":"The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eTime of the Magicians\u003c\/i\u003e, Wolfram Eilenberger\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century--at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimone 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 Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century. Her novels \u003ci\u003eThe Fountainhead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas Shrugged\u003c\/i\u003e would reach the hearts and minds of millions of Americans in the decades to come, becoming canonical libertarian texts that continue to echo today among Silicon Valley's tech elite. Hannah Arendt was developing some of today's most important liberal ideas, culminating with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e and her arrival as a peerless intellectual celebrity. Perhaps the greatest thinker of all was a classmate of Beauvoir's: Simone Weil, who turned away from fame to devote herself entirely to refugee aid and the resistance movement during the war. Ultimately, in 1943, she would starve to death in England, a martyr and true saint in the eyes of many. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew authors can synthesize gripping storytelling with sophisticated philosophy as Wolfram Eilenberger does. \u003ci\u003eThe Visionaries\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of four singular philosophers--indomitable women who were refugees and resistance fighters--each putting forward a vision of a truly free and open society at a time of authoritarianism and war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfram Eilenberger \u003c\/b\u003eis an internationally bestselling author and philosopher. He is the founding editor of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophie Magazin\u003c\/i\u003e and hosts the television program \u003ci\u003eSternstunde Philosophie\u003c\/i\u003e on the Swiss public broadcasting network SRF. In 2018, he published \u003ci\u003eTime of the Magicians \u003c\/i\u003ein Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in Italy and Spain, and won the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It has been translated into thirty languages. Eilenberger has been a prolific contributor of essays and articles to many publications, among them \u003ci\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, and Berlin University of the Arts, among other schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShaun Whiteside\u003c\/b\u003e is a prize-winning translator of fiction and nonfiction from German, French, Italian, and Dutch. He also translated Wolfram Eilenberger's \u003ci\u003eTime of the Magicians\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608588194066,"sku":"9780593297452","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7ce44f2-e4a4-4d73-ab30-d827794ad2bb.jpg?v=1732323195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-visionaries-arendt-beauvoir-rand-weil-and-the-power-of-philosophy-in-dark-times-9780593297452","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}