Foucault’s conception of modernity derives from Nietzsche and Mallarmé

Evidence

Foucault’s invocation of Lautréamont dramatizes the extent to which his thought is informed by a Modernist sensibility. When, later in the same book, Foucault attempts to capture the specificity of modernity, he argues that it involves ‘the appearance of language as a multiple profusion’, as ‘an enigmatic multiplicity that must be mastered’ rather than the transparent grid of representation which it had been conceived as in the classical era (the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), an event that he associates especially with the names of Nietzsche and Mallarmé. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with ch4/ch6 themes of modernity’s self-justification and the philosophical schools founded by Marx, Nietzsche, Saint-Simon. — connects to: Nietzsche is the source of the principal theses of postmodern theory — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 268; Both poststructuralist strands derive their core from Nietzsche
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 287

Broader Connections

• Nietzsche is the source of the principal theses of postmodern theory #corroborates (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 268
• Both poststructuralist strands derive their core from Nietzsche #corroborates (0.78)