Open AccessHistoricizing, enlightenment, genealogy
Author(s) -
Raymond Geuss
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
filozofija i drustvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1601189g
Subject(s) - enlightenment , genealogy , epistemology , philosophy , sociology , history
Historicising thinking has three properties: a) it takes the past to be different from the present, b) it takes the past to have been contingent, c) it holds that the past is relevant to the present. Genealogy, as practiced by Nietzsche and Foucault, shows itself to be a useful tool for mounting a historicising critique of certain aspects of our contemporary world. As such it can contribute to a non-dogmatic form of Enlightenment
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