TY - JOUR
AU - Wagar, W. Warren
AB - Modern Europe TRYGVE R. THOLFSEN. Ideology and Revolution in Mod- How does one write a history of thinkers who ern Europe: An Essay on the Rok of Ideas in History. believe that texts must be read ahistorically without New York: Columbia University Press. 1984. Pp. xv, appearing to take sides against their thought? How 287. $30.00. can the historian deal empathetically with prophets who proclaim with a savage glee the collapse of The full scope of this study becomes clear only when historicism? both title and subtitle are taken into account; it deals These are difficult questions, confronted bravely with two issues: the one is a general consideration of by Allan Megill. Traveling the via regia of intellec- the role of ideas in history; the other tries to give tual history defined by H. Stuart Hughes in Con- substance to these theoretical considerations by ex- sciousness and Society (1958), he takes on the task of amining the importante of ideas in the development explaining the avant-garde in Germany and France of modern revolutions. since Friedrich Nietzsche, in particular, a segment The first of these issues is treated in the introduc- of the avant-garde that has debunked the method- tory 
TI - allan megill. Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xxii ...
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/91.1.99-a
DA - 1986-02-01
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SP - 99
EP - 100
VL - 91
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