Following Nietzsche, a number of Austrian, German, and French philosophers—among them Martin Heidegger (who himself became a Nazi in 1933), Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Bruno Latour—together with a few Americans—including Richard Rorty and Austrian-American Paul Feyerabend—began rejecting the idea that reality and facts existed independently of our thinking about them.
