»Geister der Gegenwart« von Wolfram Eilenberger

In the organizer's words:

The risk of thinking for yourself

What philosophy can still guide us today? Following in the footsteps of Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault and Paul K. Feyerabend, "Ghosts of the Present" creates a great panorama of ideas of the post-war period in the West. Wolfram Eilenberger gives a captivating account of the dawn of a new enlightenment that leads directly to the fault lines of our time.

Winter 1949: Theodor W. Adorno returns from the USA to a destroyed Frankfurt, Paul K. Feyerabend, wounded in the war, returns to Vienna. Child prodigy Susan Sontag visits Thomas Mann in Los Angeles. The young Michel Foucault commits another suicide attempt in Paris. As a result of the catastrophe of the world war, these four self-thinkers seek their way into a new way of philosophizing. Over the coming decades, they revolutionize the way we think about our society, culture and science.

Wolfram Eilenberger once again presents a narrative masterpiece that uses the example of these four courageous minds to proclaim the power of philosophy to find an exit from the confines of the present. Full of surprising insights and liberating impulses for our time of crisis.