Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida / Edition 1

by Allan Megill

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520060289
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/22/1987
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	423
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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