... then turns to individuals, among them diarists, who dealt both with the communal historical as well as with their personal past—a process that peaked during the early 1940s. The last part of the chapter shows how the growing preoccupation with the past found expression in the turn to genealogy...

... of Foucault is here problematized: by putting his work in conversation with J. L. Austin's and Stanley Cavell's, it is argued that his history of truth is a valuable genealogical endeavor that, far from being self-defeating or relativist, grounds a coherent project of an ethics and politics of truth-telling...

... endeavor, but also a possibilizing one. This neglected dimension of Foucault's genealogical method is evident in his analysis of ancient parrhesia, which he presents as one component in a broader genealogy of a third regime of truth: the critical regime of truth, or what he calls the "critical attitude...

...Is Foucault a relativist about truth, and therefore to blame for the emergence of post-truth attitudes in our society? Is his critical project a viable one, or is it normatively confused and irremediably self-defeating? This book is the first to systematically examine Foucault’s genealogical...

...Chapter 8 considers how a reflective hermeneutical approach to history compares with some of the narrative and genealogical conceptions of history that have played such an important role in the second half of the twentieth century. The distinct philosophies of life of Nietzsche and Dilthey are used...

... on Charles Darwin and maps out the road and the process through which the racial sign emerges. This Darwinian genealogy speaks of the story where the invention of the racial sign stands as a strong assertion of the capacity for human beings to know and realize themselves, and at the same time distinguish...

... in the thirteenth-century Old French Crusade Cycle and the fourteenth-century Tristan de Nanteuil (Tristan of Nanteuil). Both epics recount the story of a wild boy, raised by an animal in the forest, who must become fully human in order to assume his place in a noble genealogy. These stories assume...

... of the inquiry in relation to genealogy, conceptual history and the history of political thought. civil society Hegel G W F land Alfred the Great power John Agnew Rousseau Jean Jacques border Julius Caesar territory John Agnew Agnew John Giddens Anthony jurisdiction Johannes Althusius Pascal Blaise...

...This book presents itself as a history of how natural rights became human rights, from the Wars of Religion to the Age of Revolutions, and ultimately up to 1948. But it is also and more precisely a genealogy of the rights regimes enshrined during the American and French Revolutions. Reconstructing...

... treatments on the invention and the origins of photography shunt these unintended formations off to the realm of a “prehistory” distinct from the history of “photography properly speaking”. It sketches an alternative genealogy that takes these evanescent and indeliberate traces into account as an less...

...This chapter charts a genealogy of black men’s urban business practices in relationship to citizenship and the law. Focusing on Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter), this chapter analyses the nuances of what I refer to as a hip-hop genealogy and how it infuses the ways in which...

...The manner in which acting and speaking are coordinated in human life and are being conjoined ever so often in educational processes can be imagined in a fictive genealogy that traces how assertive beings live as the outcome of a developmental process. In such a genealogy that enhances...

... an embodied genealogical practice. Yet when we start to think about the figure of the shaykh in relation to the figure of the mulū', several elements of ambiguity come to the fore regarding the flow of musical authority and the contours of musical community over time...

... as a technology of tadwīn that tends to reproduce and even embody the genealogical ethos alongside its dominant discourse of science. anticlericalism archaicism artisans Association Gharnata Tlemcen associations disciple Enlightenment France French Revolution futurity guild heritage...

... Cesare Cardinal knowledge deferred pharmakon Osiander Andreas presence astronomers' models and copies of truth dichotomies in dispute with theologians Mercury planetary motion Galileo's speculations on Venus Medicean Stars compared to book of nature genealogy theology astronomy Galileo...

... Andalusi music from the threat of disappearance. But these revivalist efforts come back to a common question: how to fashion a national, public, resilient musical patrimony out of a practice that is understood to be embodied in highly localized, genealogically embedded, and sometimes secretive individual...

..., genealogy, and classification, and against later writers and thinkers such as Goethe and Darwin. Distilling vast amounts of research on the scientific literature of the time, it offers a look not only at Kant’s famous first Critique but at the history of philosophy and the life sciences...

... the repertoire to be embodied in genealogically embedded, place-specific musical authorities. At the same time, the sense of an archipelago of distinct urban musical centers is tied to the origin narrative of Andalusi music, which claims that the repertoire emerged from specific Iberian cities and was brought...

... revivalism rupture technologies temporality value Aboura Mostefa archives associations authority Boukoura Hadi circulation collections consciousness consolidation copyright Derrida Jacques discourse documentation El Riath evanescence genealogical generations heaviness hoarding hoards...