Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida
- ISBN-10
- 0520052390
- ISBN-13
- 9780520052390
- Category
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Pages
- 399
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Allan Megill
Description
In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. In an attempt to place these thinkers within the wider context of the crisis-oriented modernism and postmodernism that have been the source of much of what is most original and creative in twentieth-century art and thought.
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- 1987-04-22
- 428 pages
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- Univ of California Press
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