By David Owen
Maturity and Modernity is the 1st ebook to research Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a convention of theorising and to chart the improvement of family tree as a style of critique. It presents transparent debts of the most rules of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (as good as an invaluable word list) and illustrates the family among those thinkers at methodological, great and politcal degrees.
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