El largo siglo de las utopías : De Nietzsche a Susan Sontag

In August 1883, the eruption of Krakatoa, east of Java, reverberated as far away as the German city of Hamburg. For Peter Neumann, this cataclysm constitutes an extraordinary symbol of the powerful energies that certain utopian hopes and dreams would unleash throughout the 20th century, beginning with the unsettling figure of Nietzsche's Übermensch and ending with the chimera of universal peace proposed by Susan Sontag in 2003. Between these two moments, Peter Neumann offers us remarkable portraits of the artists, thinkers, and writers who revolutionized ideas and the way they were expressed, and who, in times of crisis and uncertainty, were able to think about reality in unprecedented and often revolutionary ways. With precise strokes and enormous narrative talent, the author describes atmospheres and landscapes, and discovers unsuspected constellations and mutual influences between authors and creators of the stature of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Salvador Dalí, the painter Käthe Kollwitz, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin or Christa Wolf.