The visionaries Arendt, beauvoir, rand, weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times. /

A 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 Time of the Magicians , Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most...

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Main Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram, 1972-
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2023.
2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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