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What distinguishes a genealogy of morals from other types of historical writing? As a first approach to this question, we will pick out the main lines of specifically historical argument in Foucault’s genealogical studies: Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality. Introduction to these books’ more abstract theoretical lines of argument (notably on the concepts of power and subjectivity) is reserved for chapter 3. The two exceptions to this order of exposition are the idea of a genealogy itself and the relation of genealogy to the domain of theory.
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Minson, J. (1985). Genealogical Histories. In: Genealogies of Morals. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04457-3_2
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