POL SCI 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Genealogy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Critical Apparatus
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First book he wrote was on greek tragedy. He was often very sick, he died of dementia at the end of the 19th century. Complicated and subtle operation that niche introduces. Marx"s critiques established norms and ideas and places doubt on the naturalness of value. Like marx nietzsche has a suspicion of the modern period. Genealogy is the mode that nietzsche uses to elaborate the critical apparatus of suspicion. For marx critical thinking operated at the level of the system. Of our beliefs and sense that the movable unsettable things are we believe mobile. Nietzsche is interested in giving full force to the structure of everyday life, irrationalities and how they came to be. The focus is on the irrationality of the values that structure our lives. It turns to the ways in which historical forces affect bodies. Play and tinker and explore diagnose this creation of values. The formation of value is a sight of political power.
