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Genealogical thought · Genealogical Thinking in Nietzsche's Wake (19th-21st Centuries)

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-09-01 → 2021-08-31
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Genealogical Thinking in Nietzsche's Wake (19th-21st Centuries)

• My research project aims to pave the way for a history of genealogical receptions of Nietzsche in the 20th and 21st centuries. The corpus of the project includes the readings of On the Genealogy of Morality and the specific genealogical practices of authors like Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Bernard Williams, who all invoked the word “genealogy” with explicit reference to Nietzsche. I use a Nietzschean methodology in the sense of § 12 of the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality: in other words, I don’t presuppose the existence of o common conceptual kernel permeating the whole genealogical tradition, but I simply follow the thread of successive reinterpretations of an unchanged term ("genealogy"). The main objective is to obtain a synoptic view of the post-Nietzschean genealogical tradition. • An important conclusion of this research is that Foucault’s major role as an interpreter and disseminator of the Nietzschean word “genealogy” needs to be recognized. Indeed, there are many signs that Foucault’s reception served as a decisive intermediary between On the Genealogy of Morality and the English-speaking world, especially in the context of American gender studies. • This project has epistemological and cultural implications. From an epistemological standpoint, it focuses on genealogical thinkers who successfully avoided essentialism in their treatment of history, by questioning the operative value of supposedly universal concepts, such as “morals”, “state” or “gender”. Understanding this tradition is crucial to develop non-teleological historiographies in all areas, but especially in the fields of history of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy. From a cultural standpoint, the genealogical tradition opened new perspectives on our European and Western culture: it brought apparently well-known cultural phenomena, like Christianity or criminal law, under a new light. However, differences of interpretation did occur among genealogists as to the origin and/or value of these great phenomena. By highlighting such differences, I would like to contribute to problematizing our own culture, a task which appears to me as a crucial social function of philosophy.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

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Since a few decades, “genealogy” has become a philosophical keyword: self-proclaimed genealogies of X or Y are offered every day (where X can be democracy, modernity, spiritualism, Europe, and so on). Admittedly, the word “genealogy” doesn’t mean much more than “genesis” in most of these contexts. But even this loose understanding of the term seems to echo a philosophical tradition which grew out of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals and of some influential readings of it: especially those of Deleuze and Foucault . The present research proposal aims at interrogating this tradition. To circumscribe a real tradition and not a mere intellectual fashion, the genealogical corpus must be defined as a history of explicit receptions of Nietzsche. Thus, Foucault, Judith Butler and Bernard Williams are three major genealogists in the strong sense: they have all engaged in a creative dialogue with the Genealogy of Morals, around the idea of “problematizing” our present norms and values through history . In doing so, however, they have also reinterpreted what Nietzsche initially meant by a “genealogy of morals”. Hence, it seems both needful and worthwhile to write a history of genealogical thinking in Nietzsche’s wake. This history could also help clarify what philosophical genealogy can achieve today in the fields of social and political philosophy, ethics, epistemology and gender studies.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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