Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
@article{Foucault2019NietzscheGH, title={Nietzsche, Genealogy, History}, author={Michel Foucault}, journal={Language, Counter-Memory, Practice}, year={2019} }
1 . Genealogy i s gray, meticulous, and patiently documentary . It operates on a field of entangled and confused parchments, on d ocuments that have been scratched over and recopied many times . O n this basis, it i s obvious that Paul Reel was wrong to follow the English tendency in describing the history of morality in terms of a linear development-in reducing its entire history and genesis to an exclusive concern for utility . He assumed that words had kept their meaning, that desires still…
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