Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida

Synopsis

In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four 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.