Culture | New speak
The philosophers who imagined a new world
In the 1920s they walked the walk, as well as doing a lot of dizzying talk
Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929. By Wolfram Eilenberger. Translated by Shaun Whiteside.Penguin; 432 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25.
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