Prophets of Extremity by Allan Megill

Prophets of Extremity by Allan Megill

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Presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. This book attempts 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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Prophets of Extremity by Allan Megill

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780520060289
ISBN 10 0520060288
Title Prophets of Extremity
Author Allan Megill
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1987-05-22
Number of pages 423
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.