ancarrol /genealogy_essay

Filling the Void: Reassessing History and Genealogy Beyond the Established Structure

If interpretation is the violent or surreptitious appropriation of a system of rules, which in itself has no essential meaning, in order to impose a direction, to bend it to a new will, to force its participation in a different game, and to subject it to secondary rules, then the development of humanity is a series of interpretations. The role of genealogy is to record its history: the history of morals, ideals, and the metaphysical concepts, the history of the concept of liberty or of the ascetic life as they stand for the emergence of different interpretations they must be made to appear as events on the stage of historical process.(86)