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Author Megill, Allan.

Title Prophets of extremity : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida / Allan Megill
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1985]
©1985

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Description xxiii, 399 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Pt. I. Friedrich Nietzsche as aestheticist -- 1. Nietzsche and the aesthetic -- 2. Nietzsche and myth -- Pt. II. Martin Heidegger and the idealism of nostalgia -- 3. Heidegger and crisis -- 4. Heidegger's aestheticism -- Pt. III. Michel Foucault and the activism of discourse -- 5. Foucault and structuralism -- 6. Beyond structuralism -- Pt. IV. On the meaning of Jacques Derrida -- 7. The deconstruction of crisis -- 8. The deconstruction of art
Analysis Derrida, Jacques
European philosophy, history
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
Philosophy, Modern - 19th century
Philosophy, Modern - 20th century
Postmodernism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 353-375
Subject Derrida, Jacques.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Postmodernism.
LC no. 84008518
ISBN 0520052390
0520060288 (paperback)