The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger Summary
Overview of The Visionaries
"The Visionaries" chronicles four revolutionary women philosophers who reshaped 20th-century thought during totalitarianism's rise. From Ayn Rand's libertarianism that influenced Alan Greenspan to Simone Weil's mysticism, their competing visions of freedom and responsibility still ignite passionate debate today.
Similar books to The Visionaries
著者の声を通じて本を感じる
知識を魅力的で例が豊富な洞察に変換
キーアイデアを瞬時にキャプチャして素早く学習
楽しく魅力的な方法で本を楽しむ
重要なポイント
When Ideas Were Forged in Fire
Four women sit at separate desks across Europe and America in 1943. One starves herself in a London hospital bed, writing feverishly about grace. Another dynamites buildings on paper in New York, celebrating the sovereignty of genius. A third teaches Hegel to students in Nazi-occupied Paris, quietly building a philosophy of mutual liberation. The fourth researches the anatomy of totalitarianism in Manhattan, documenting how systems turn humans into things. They've never met as a group, yet they're engaged in the same urgent work-redefining what it means to be human when the world seems determined to erase that meaning entirely. Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand, and Simone Weil didn't choose philosophy as a career path. Philosophy chose them, forced upon them by exile, occupation, and the collapse of civilization itself. Picture Germany in 1933. Engineers rent chairs in public gardens. Elderly men in bowler hats beg at subway exits. Nearly half the working class sits idle while political factions tear each other apart instead of confronting the rising Nazi threat. For Hannah Arendt, the breaking point came during breakfast near Berlin's Alexanderplatz when the Gestapo arrested her and her mother. Though released the same day, Arendt understood: there was no future here, at least not for people like her. She escaped through a house with a front door in Germany and a back door in Czechoslovakia-what refugees called "the classic route." By summer, 40,000 had fled, 20,000 reaching Paris.
Crisis and Collapse
Discovering New Ways of Seeing
Testing Philosophy Against Reality
Love as Resistance and the Price of Truth
Philosophy Under Occupation
What Remains When Everything Falls
クイックサマリーモード - 『The Visionaries』の要約を12分で読む・聴く
『The Visionaries』の核心的なアイデアを分かりやすいポイントに分解し、革新的なチームがどのように創造、協力、成長するかを理解します。
フラッシュカードモード - 『The Visionaries』から厳選した8の洞察
『The Visionaries』を素早い記憶のヒントに凝縮し、率直さ、チームワーク、創造的な回復力の主要原則を強調します。
エンタメモード - 『The Visionaries』のレッスンを24分のストーリーで
鮮やかなストーリーテリングを通じて『The Visionaries』を体験し、イノベーションのレッスンを記憶に残り、応用できる瞬間に変えます。
パーソナライズモード - 『The Visionaries』の要約を0分で読む・聴く
何でも質問し、声を選び、本当にあなたに響く洞察を一緒に作り出しましょう。
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
The Visionariesの要約をPDFまたはEPUBで無料でダウンロード。印刷やオフラインでいつでもお読みいただけます。