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Foucault (1984) Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

Foucault, M. (1994). 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History' in J. Faubian (ed.), Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Vol. 2 London: Penguin Books pp. 369-392.

Author: 
Michel Foucault
Publication date: 
1971

In this article Foucault discusses the implications of Nietzsche’s genealogical method for the analysis of history.  It is a seminal article in Foucault’s early development of the genealogical method which he would develop and employ in his own work.