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Table of Contents

A Note on Texts and Translations

Introduction: In the Coils of the Ouroboros

Part 1: A History of the Genealogical Present

1: The Dominion of Genealogy
History in Black Leather
Foucault Ascendant
The First Charge: The Hegemony of Genealogy
2: Genealogical Regimes
Genealogy’s Bodies
Genealogy’s Power Effects
Genetic Genealogy
The Second Charge: Genealogy as Power
 
Part 2: The Chimera of Origins

3: Nietzsche as Progenitor
Against the Genealogists
The Emergence of a Genealogical Polemic
The Untimely Historian
Dismantling “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”
4: Genealogy’s Shadows: Bataille, Wahl, Deleuze
Nietzsche Dismembered
Monstrous Nietzsche
Rhizomes
The Third Charge: The Phantom of Origins
 
Part 3: Genealogy as Mask

5: Foucault: Confessions of a Structuralist
The Black Monk and the Archaeology of Foucault’s Structuralism
The Bonfire of Structuralism
The Road to Genealogy
6: Foucault in the Coils of Genealogy
Nietzschean Genealogy as Pedigree and Power
Foucault’s Nietzsche Course and Notes
“Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” Revisited
Genealogy as Joyful Science
The Fourth Charge: The Mask of Method
 
Conclusion: Beyond the Autodestruction of Genealogy
Against Automatic Criticism
Toward a Metamodern Historiography

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
 

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