The third series of Wolfram Eilenberger’s popular philosophy books narrates the lives and thoughts of Theodor W. Adorno, Michel Foucault, Paul Feyerabend and Susan Sontag. Do we learn from their mistakes?
Reading Wolfram Eilenberger’s book “Ghosts of the Present” is not without risks: Anyone who gets involved runs the risk of wanting to spend at least the rest of the year following the trail that the historian of ideas lays down in his forays into the works of the thinkers portrayed here. If, for example, you happen not to be familiar with Adorno’s “Metacritique of Epistemology”, Eilenberger’s pertinent tips will show you that it is definitely worth studying it – if only because, for the system breaker Adorno, philosophy and dialectics are nothing other than “organized contradiction spirit” (Hegel).