What is genealogy?

Journal of the Philosophy of History

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 263-275

  Bevir, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critique; Foucault; Genealogy; Historicism; Nietzsche

Indexed keywords

EID: 61949087184     PISSN: 1872261X     EISSN: 18722636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187226308X335958     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. See the curt defense of liberalism irrespective of its entanglements with power in J. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality (New York: Free Press, 1995)
2. Eg. A. MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), p. 55
3. C. Taylor, "Foucault on Freedom and Truth", Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2: Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 152-84
4. Cf. D. Hoy, "Nietzsche, Hume, and the Genealogical Method" in R. Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals" (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 251-68
5. D. Hume, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" in D. Coleman (ed.), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Other Writings, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
6. F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. J. Norman, ed. R-P. Horstmann and J. Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
7. P. Rée, The Origin of the Moral Sensations, ed. R. Small (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003)
8. F. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson, trans. C. Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 51
9. For my own attempt at a normative analysis of theory choice see M. Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), chap. 3
10. M. Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" in The Foucault Reader, ed. P. Rabinow (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), p. 76
11. M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. A. Sheridan Smith (London: Tavistock Publishers, 1977)
12. and M. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure, & Vol. 3: The Care of the Self, trans R. Hurley (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978-1985)