Obviously I misread the question. It was just a list of three theorists without any intended pairing. Nietzsche would be important for the eternal return and critique of all vales, in philosophy. I was quite curious as to why Marx would be excluded... but a misreading, so no matter. On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 03:21 -0800, MC Ward wrote: > Chris, thanks for your exegesis on Marx--but my > question was why Marx and Freud are paired with > Nietzche instead of Darwin, the usual third figure who > ushered in (or tried to, at least) modernity. I just > don't see Nietzche as on a par with Marx and Freud. > Not that he's unimportant--far from it--but rather > that he has agendas otherwise.