There are not exactly many instances of Derrida and Habermas agreeing on something. Their shared conviction that Nietzsche and Hegel could be said to have been philosophical opposites is one of the more notable exceptions. The same way that Nietzsche's and Hegel's respective beliefs in the great men theory is a notable exception to their overall divergence,--indicated above and generally agreed on at least since Deleuze's intervention--never mind their different accounts of the function, significance, meaning and "purpose" of those who they deemed to be the great men (perhaps most readily seen in their respective remarks on Napoleon and to a certain degree Goethe). Be that as it may, to my knowledge, we have experienced a drastic loss of belief in the great men theory in the second half of the 20th century, under the influence of notions such as the death of the author and "post-modernist" (I hate this term) interventions and deconstructions. I believe that most historians of today no longer believe in the great men theory? If so, why not? Who or what had dealt the major blow to it? Have there been any historians or philosophers defending it in recent decades? Is it a contentious issue or is it, as it currently stands, an issue mostly settled? Thanks