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

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

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. The radical crisis initiated by the pronouncement of the Death of God has been addressed in a variety of ways by such modern and postmodern continental thinkers as Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. He was declared a radical relativist by, among others, Alasdair MacIntyre, in After Virtue, and Alan Megill, in Prophets of Extremity, though Megill praised Wilcox's honesty in presenting passages from Nietzsche's texts at odds with his conclusion. Have you read Allan Megill's Prophets of Extremity? While Foucault would embrace the imaginative side of the Nietzschean heritage, Heidegger embraced the nostalgic side. 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. This book, published in the mid-'80s, is an analysis of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. Allan Megill, Prophets of Extremity. Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida University of California | ISBN 0520060288 | 1987-05-22 | DJVU | 399 Pages | 7 mb. [4] Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. Heidegger's nostalgia for an By the early 30's, Heidegger had become a prophet of extremity. 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. Initiated many of the basic concepts which stand [1] Alan Megill, Prophets of Extremity; Steven Best and Douglas Keller, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida.