Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida Allan Megill
Publisher: University of California Press

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. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985 (1987 printing). 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. Prophets of extremity : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida / Allan Megill. Publisher: University of California Press Page Count: 413. 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 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. GO Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida Author: Allan Megill Type: eBook. Language: English Released: 1987. Michel Foucault, "The Confessions of the Flesh," Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, p.198, as quoted in Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, by Allan Megill, pp. 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). Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. While Foucault would embrace the imaginative side of the Nietzschean heritage, Heidegger embraced the nostalgic side. 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. [4] Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. This book, published in the mid-'80s, is an analysis of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. Allan Megill, Prophets of Extremity. Heidegger's nostalgia for an By the early 30's, Heidegger had become a prophet of extremity.