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To approach Foucault through Nietzsche is itself to pose the central problem of genealogy: need a flawed ancestry brand the line of descent? Denunciations of arguments from origins are surely familiar enough to produce a certain scepticism. Yet if origins do not produce alternative definitions, why is it relevant to look at genealogies at all? How, in other words, might a genealogical enquiry be framed in order to produce an understanding of current affairs?
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Minson, J. (1985). Limitations on Genealogy I: Nietzsche on Subjectivity and Power. In: Genealogies of Morals. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04457-3_4
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