Presumably Foucault eschewed left and right positions for one out in front.
I don't know much about 20C nihilist lit. It's certainly true that the earlier ones emerge from romanticism: Schopenhauer, Leopardi, Dostoevsky when not all fucked up on Jesus, Nietzsche on Wednesdays. You can see how the despair strains in figures like Goethe, Emerson and Shelley might lead to that. Romantics in a permanently bad mood, one could perhaps call them.
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Date: 2014-03-01 03:53 pm (UTC)I don't know much about 20C nihilist lit. It's certainly true that the earlier ones emerge from romanticism: Schopenhauer, Leopardi, Dostoevsky when not all fucked up on Jesus, Nietzsche on Wednesdays. You can see how the despair strains in figures like Goethe, Emerson and Shelley might lead to that. Romantics in a permanently bad mood, one could perhaps call them.