The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
MacIntyre and Barfield on Remedies to the Catastrophe
Barfield’s diagnosis of a deeper alienation from language induces a correspondingly more dramatic remedy.
Jeffrey Hipolito puts two great theorists of human history into conversation
Pearl Diving in the Archives
After all, isn’t that really what Ressourcement is? A turn to the sources of the past to bring more vitality, and even spiritual vitality, into the present.
Brenna Moore considers a genealogical return to forgotten sources
What Foucault Meant When He Said “Genealogy”
Problematization is just the beginning. Genealogy is what we do after we problematize. Genealogy can be more constructive than critical.
Ryan McDermott on Foucault and genealogy as comedy
Nietzsche Was Not a Genealogist
Contrary to Foucault’s account of genealogy, Nietzsche characterizes his enterprise as the discovery of the true (singular) origin of intellectual and cultural phenomena. Genealogy, in his disparaging account, gets it wrong.
Ryan McDermott develops an answer to the question: what is genealogy?