'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History' is a text by Michel Foucault, originally published in 1971 under the title Nietzsche, la généalogie, l'histoire and translated to Dutch by Eric Bolle in 1981. Foucault describes in this text Nietzsche's history as a search for the origin of human convictions. Content

According to Foucault, the genealogy of Nietzsche contrasts with the search for a pure 'origin'. In origin, one wants to capture the exact essence of the case or its purest possibility. However, the genealogist does not seek an undamaged origin, but points to the many occasions of creation, coincidences, concealed conquests and systematic cuts that precedes human knowledge. The genealogy can be defined as the study of the complex origin [Herkunft] and the gradual emergence of the human perceptions in the course of history.

According to Foucault's interpretation, Nietzsche's history describes three forms. First of all, she is a parodic foolish game that diminishes the historically shaped mask of one Truth and resets many masks. Secondly, she leads to the dissolution of the 'me' by depriving the idea of ​​continuity and identity and pointing at a coincidence. Thirdly, genealogy offers the subject of knowledge by pointing to the will that is the basis for it. Source

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