Prophets of extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida - Hardcover

Megill, Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520052390 ISBN 13: 9780520052390

Publisher: University of California Press, 1985

Synopsis

Examines the philosophical works of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida, and analyzes the connections between their viewpoints.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"The 'extremities' of the four thinkers anatomized in this lucid, learned and commendably skeptical study--Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida--are crises. But they are crises of a very different order from those we would freely acknowledge to define our present condition: economic, environmental, moral, political. In the frantic self-portrait titled 'Ecce Homo,' Nietzsche warns of 'a crisis without equal on earth . . . against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far.' In a late interview, Heidegger said, 'Only a god can save us.' . . . Save us from what, for what? Allan Megill, an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, is fascinated by the cataclysmic diagnosis of his four extremists, but also dubious."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0520052390
• ISBN 13: 9780520052390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 399