El fuego de la libertad

The decade from 1933 to 1943 marked the saddest chapter in modern Europe. Amid the horror, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt, four of the most influential figures of the 20th century, showed what it means to lead a truly emancipated life while developing their visionary ideas about relationship. between the individual and society, man and woman, sex and gender, freedom and totalitarianism, and God and humanity. With great narrative ability and a masterful balance between biographical account and analysis of ideas, Eilenberger offers us the story of four legendary lives that, in the midst of upheaval, as refugees and resistance fighters, ostracized and enlightened, they changed our way of understanding the world and laid the foundations for a truly free society. Their adventures took them from Stalin's Leningrad to Hollywood, from Hitler's Berlin and occupied Paris to New York; but, above all, they gave rise to his revolutionary ideas, without which our present, and our future, would not be the same. Their trajectories show how philosophy can also be lived and are an impressive testament to the liberating power of thought.