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Prophets of Extremity

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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...
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  • 22 May 1987
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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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Price: $33.95
Pages: 423
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 22 May 1987
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520060289
Format: Paperback
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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.
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