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Critiquing Genealogy and Genealogizing Critique: A Storm Breaks over Nietzsche and Foucault
Review: Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (University of Chicago Press, 2026). Reading Friedrich Nietzsche in good faith is a little like gambling for charity—it’s arguably a betrayal of the art form. If you want a good-faith reading of how one of Nietzsche’s various metaphors for his technique of roguishly insightful but maliciously suspicious reading—his “genealogy”—was transmuted into a default methodology for so-called “poststructuralist” cultural studies by acolytes of Michel Foucault, I recommend Michael Mahon’s 1992…