Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy Memoir_Gift_Guide Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of

Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective—is back on the case

seeking solace and pleasure

and build again

from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day

and authenticity that bubbles over as he ties real-life experiences from his own time in middle school to the experiences he has from his many years as a teacher

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy Memoir_Gift_Guide Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks. Wall Street Journal A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The