Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy

"There has long been a need to overcome the view that Foucault is totally unique, a philosophical eccentricity. In exploring him as a Nietzschean, Mahon meets this need in a very close reading of Foucault and one which is extremely well written."I regard it as very important for the world of scholarship about Foucault, but also for Nietzsche. Mahon shows that Nietzsche himself can lead to an important style of concrete critique."While such careful—and needed—textual analysis could be dull, the fact that the subject matter is Nietzsche and Foucault makes that careful reading fascinating in its own right. In addition to its scholarly contribution, the material is so fascinating and the text so well written that the book should appeal to a fairly general academic audience." — James Bernauer, Boston College

• Preface1: Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy: An IntroductionA. An OverviewB. The Nietzschean Face of Foucault Scholarship2: Foucault's History of Madness: An Invitation to a Nietzschean Genealogy of MoralsA. The Moral Problematization of MadnessB. The Emergence of the Three Genealogical Axes1. The Birth of the Asyluma. The Power Axis: The Space of Confinementb. The Subject Axis: One Becomes Mad Because One Wants to Bec. The Truth Axis: The Critical Experience of Madness2. The Birth of the Clinica. The Power Axis: The Spatialization of Diseaseb. The Truth Axis: The Verbalization of Diseasec. The Subject Axis: Death and the Individual3: Language, Time, and the Death of ManA. Language and Knowledge1. The Linguistic Paralysis of Thought2. Language in the Space of Death: TransgressionB. Time: From Classical Order to Modem History1. From Natural History to Biology2. From the Analysis of Wealth to Political Economy3. From General Grammar to PhilologyC. The Birth and Death of Man1. The Birth of Man in the Age of Critique: Kant and the Analytic of Finitude2. The Death of Man and the Realization of Critique: Nietzschean Genealogy and the Counter-Sciences4: The Notion of GenealogyPart I: Friedrich Nietzsche's Notion of GenealogyA. On the Prejudices of PhilosophersB. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals1. Genealogy is Critique2. Critique is Genealogical: Genealogy as History Oriented toward the FuturePart II: Michel Foucault's Notion of GenealogyA. On the Prejudices of PhilosophersB. Foucault's Notion of Genealogy1. Genealogy as Critique I: Toward the Realization of the Critique of Reason2. Genealogy as Critique II: The Historical A Priori3. Critique as Genealogical: Critique as History of the PresentC. Conclusion5: The Practice of Genealogy: The Genealogy of the SoulPart I: Nietzsche's Genealogy of the SoulPart II: Foucault's Genealogy of the Modern Soul as IndividualityA. The Emergence of Humanity as Legal Limit: From Monarchical to Reform Penal PracticesB. The Solidification of Individuality1. Surveillance and the Transformation of Space2. Discipline and the Transformation of Time3. Writing and Confession6: The Genealogy of the Modern SubjectA. Nietzsche's Genealogy of the Ascetic IdealB. Foucault's Genealogy of the Desiring Subject: The Premodern Experience1. The Ethical Substance: Ontology2. The Mode of Subjection: Deontology3. The Form of Relationship with the Self: Ascetics4. TeleologyC. The Genealogy of the Subject: The Modern ExperienceD. Genealogy as Self-Critical EnlightenmentAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex