Steven Poole

Four German-speaking philosophers in search of a theme

Wolfram Eilenberger credits Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Cassirer with inventing modern thought. But a shared language was all they ever had in common

Martin Heiddeger. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 28 November 2020
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  • Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929

    Wolfram Eilenberger, translated by Shaun Whiteside

    Allen Lane, pp. 432, £25

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