German researcher Wolfram Eilenberger (b. 1972), founder and editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazin, takes a look at one of the greatest eras of German-Austrian thought - the twenties of the last century, in detail, as if under a microscope, examining not only philosophical creativity, but also the lives of four “magicians”: Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose fates were intricately intertwined with the vicissitudes of the turbulent post-war decade. The impressive intellectual and historical panorama that came from the pen of the author does not resemble either a textbook on the history of philosophy, or an academic study, or a fictionalized biography, but combines the best features of all these genres, inviting the reader to take an excursion into the laboratory of thought, which became the birthplace of a number of trends in modern philosophy. The publishing layout is preserved in PDF A4 format.