The Genealogies of Modernity Journal

Philosophy & Religion Ryan McDermott Philosophy & Religion Ryan McDermott

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?

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