Megill: Prophets Of Extremity (cloth): Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida - Hardcover

Megill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520052390 ISBN 13: 9780520052390

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Sustains an intriguing thesis and at the same time provides an excellent general introduction to this fearsome foursome. Vintage intellectual history."--"Village Voice

About the Author:

Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida and Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market), and editor of Rethinking Objectivity.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520052390
• ISBN 13: 9780520052390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432