The Haunted Present: Adorno, Sontag, Foucault, Feyerabend and the Ends of Philosophy
Jan 2027 · Random House
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The year is 1949. Theodor Adorno returns from New York to bombed-out Frankfurt, tasked with finding enlightenment from within ruin. Susan Sontag is reborn in San Francisco. Michel Foucault attempts suicide, again, in Paris. Paul Feyerabend, crippled by a war wound, recircles his native Vienna. The war's aftermath calls for the world to be remade, and over the coming decades this quartet of thinkers will revolutionise how we think about society, culture and science.
The Haunted Present follows in its protagonists' footsteps from Los Angeles to London, Harvard to Hanoi, as each seeks ways into a new philosophy. We see them moving through a world seething with change, grappling courageously with the violent collision of critical theory, aesthetic rebellion, scientific scepticism and political disillusionment that defined their era, and now haunts our own. Through their lives and thought, Wolfram Eilenberger reveals the competing intellectual impulses that emerged to produce the faultlines and crises of the present - and the power of philosophy to escape its constraints.
The year is 1949. Theodor Adorno returns from New York to bombed-out Frankfurt, tasked with finding enlightenment from within ruin. Susan Sontag is reborn in San Francisco. Michel Foucault attempts suicide, again, in Paris. Paul Feyerabend, crippled by a war wound, recircles his native Vienna. Th...
About the author
Wolfram Eilenberger is a founding editor of Philosophie Magazin and host of the Sternstunde Philosophie television programme. He has taught philosophy at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, the Berlin University of the Arts and ETH Zürich. His most recent book, Time of the Magicians, was a runaway bestseller on publication in Germany, where it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, as well as in Spain and Italy, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Wolfram Eilenberger is a founding editor of Philosophie Magazin and host of the Sternstunde Philosophie television programme. He has taught philosophy at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, the Berlin University of the Arts and ETH Zürich. His most recent book, Time of the Magicians, w...
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