Prophets of Extremity
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. May 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
423 pages
978-0-520-06028-9 (ISBN)
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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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-06028-9 (9780520060289)
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04/2023
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Naval Institute Press
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Person
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.
Content
Preface Key to Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Friedrich Nietzsche as Aestheticist 1. Nietzsche and the Aesthetic 2. Nietzsche and Myth Part II: Martin Heidegger and the Idealism of Nostalgia 3. Heidegger and Crisis 4. Heidegger's Aestheticism Part III: Michel Foucalt and the Activism of Discourse 5. Foucault and Structuralism 6. Beyond Structuralism Part IV: On the Meaning of Jacques Derrida 7. The Deconstruction of Crisis 8. The Deconstruction of Art Conclusion Notes A Note on Texts Index