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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Maybe someday
28
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Readers
38/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Wolfram Eilenberger
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
August 1, 2023
An intellectual narrative starring the radical and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand.
What The Reviewers Say
Eilenberger is an energetic guide to these philosophers’ ideas, though it’s clear that he holds Weil’s writings in special esteem..
In his enjoyable book, Eilenberger manages to convey not only his characters’ complicated lives but the convoluted flow of their endlessly agitated minds.
The Visionaries is much better than Eilenberger’s previous group biography.
Ambitious, enthralling.
