Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida by Allan Megill

Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida



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Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida Allan Megill ebook
Page: 413
ISBN: 0520060288, 9780520060289
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Publisher: University of California Press


There is a more serious account of Derrida as subverter in Allan Megill's elegant and impressive book,Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida . [4] Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. According to Best and Kellner, Nietzsche's “assault on Western rationalism profoundly influenced Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard and other postmodern theorists.”[33] According to Clayton Koelb, “Nietzsche. While Foucault would embrace the imaginative side of the Nietzschean heritage, Heidegger embraced the nostalgic side. His research interests include – but are not limited to – comics studies, literary theory and criticism, philosophy (particularly the so-called “prophets of extremity” – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida). Language: English Released: 1987. The “Prophets of Extremity”[88] of the 20th century, are exemplified in the works of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida, who, indeed, defined and predicted the dominance of modern Western agnostic hermeneutics. He perpetually wants to go back, to return, As Derrida notes, Heidegger's discourse in B&T is dominated by a metaphorics of proximity, of simple immediate presence, neighboring, sheltering, guarding, listening, etc. Initiated many of the basic concepts which stand [1] Alan Megill, Prophets of Extremity; Steven Best and Douglas Keller, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. GO Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida Author: Allan Megill Type: eBook. Heidegger's nostalgia for an By the early 30's, Heidegger had become a prophet of extremity. Publisher: University of California Press Page Count: 413. Auctor and Actor A Narratological Reading of Apuleius' the Golden Ass John J. Prophets of Extremity Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida Allan Megill University of California Press.