#foucault

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

[3. It is a diagnostic method that focuses on the very body of the present - cont'd]

[a. Not reconstructing a distance (e.g., to a homeland, to God, to salvation), but what is already nearest: - cont'd]

ii. Genealogy will consist of:

understanding how multiple origins are expressed in the form of instincts and valuations;

understanding how these contradictory elements are in struggle;

understanding how the individual reacts to these struggles which weaken them through a desire for peace, but how for some the effect is the opposite

—because of additional heredity:

the ability to wage war against oneself (instead of wanting to appease oneself);

the capacity to dominate and deceive oneself

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

3. It is a diagnostic method that focuses on the very body of the present.

a. The nearest:

i. in doing so, it is not the distance that we are trying to reconstruct, - but the closest, what is there within us in our body.

—“Physiology” of science.

—Example: The men of dissolution (the end of the (Roman) Republic, the end of the Middle Ages) (Beyond good and evil). These men, we will do their genealogy

not to find where they come from,

but to know what is happening at the level of their gesture, their body, their will and their energy

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

[2. It is a weakening tool. In carrying out this search for provenance, it is a question of ironically but severely (with a hammer) undoing the most self-enclosed identities - cont'd]

[c. Underneath the attachment to the truth, a passion to triumph through speech - cont'd]

ii. This provenance of truth

—it has nothing in common with this original soil that Husserl was later to seek among Greek surveyors. What Husserl was looking for was the constitution of this horizon of rationality that mathematics has never ceased to explore in a climate of pure rationality.

—[rather,] it is about breaking this confidence that knowledge can have in itself; to refer it,

not to the essentials of its interior structure,

but to the irregularity of the desire which invests it

with no research into the foundations

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

[2. It is a weakening tool. In carrying out this search for provenance, it is a question of ironically but severely (with a hammer) undoing the most self-enclosed identities - cont'd]

c. Underneath the attachment to the truth, a passion to triumph through speech. That of

the sophists

the lawyers

the rhetoricians

i. Discourse as an instrument of power. If it had not been for this, could the meticulous dialectic of truth have seen the light of day?

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

[2. It is a weakening tool. In carrying out this search for provenance, it is a question of ironically but severely (with a hammer) undoing the most self-enclosed identities - cont'd]

b. Beneath the objectivity of description and classification, the strange desire to

record

transcribe

preserve

i. There we find

the feeling of distrust

the form of the contract

ii. There we find the desire to establish material charters:

not the pure gaze of perception,

but a whole legal world of institutions

[B. But we must see how Nietzsche makes this belonging work. It is not at all to fit an individual into a general type, or an event into a spiritual totality. This is not to give it the status of the concept - cont'd]

2. It is a weakening tool. In carrying out this search for provenance, it is a question

not of restoring and establishing, on an original background, a lost or threatened unit

but on the contrary, it is a question of ironically but severely (with a hammer) undoing the most self-enclosed identities

a. Text:

The Germans (Beyond Good and Evil).

But above all: Le Gai Savoir.

i. Science presents itself as that which is of a purely intellectual nature,

sheltered from all desire and all subjectivity,

developing according to laws which are unique to it.

ii. Hence his feeling of security. But

if we no longer questioned the form or content of science, but the will to know;

if we questioned not science as an entity, but scientists as an individual and historical form of this will;

then what would we find?