Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is deservedly part of the ethical canon, but it is also enormously and insistently absent-minded. I'm going to first present, as a textual puzzle, a handful of forgetful moments in the first two essays of the Genealogy. To address the puzzle, I will take up a familiar idea, that the Genealogy is both a subversive account of ethics and of what it is to be an intellectual. I will describe a strategy for reading the text that makes these out to be differently and more closely connected than they are usually taken to be.
Type
text;
citation_publisher
International Phenomenological Society
citation_journal_title
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
citation_volume
75
citation_issue
1
citation_firstpage
92
Citation_lastpage
110
citation_doi
10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00061.x
citatation_issn
0031-8205
citation_language
eng;
Bibliographic Citation
Millgram, E. (2007). Who was Nietzsche's genealogist? Philosophy; and Phenomenological Research, 75(1), Jul., 92-110.
