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Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida

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.

Subject
philosophy
Setting
19th century20th century
Audience
adult
Length
long · 423 pages

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