Historias de Foucault

These are my thoughts on life's labyrinth. Accolades #1 in panopticon #1 in foucault #1 in whatareyou

The essay will discuss "On the Genealogy of Morality", one of Nietzsche's most important works, what "genealogy" means and what its purpose is. More in particular, I will focus on the first treatise "'Good and Evil', 'Good and Bad'", the Master-Slave morality, its critique to Christianity and the common ground between Nietzsche's and Foucault's philosophy. The last paragraph will explore how Nietzsche's work on morality, leads to his broader philosophy touching concepts like the cultural death of Europe, and the Overman.

Foucault,had he been alive today would have been forced to do a new edition of this book.

"The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters" opens a new line of inquiry into the Old English poem, specifically trauma theory, which attempts to map the psychological typography of an author and his or her culture, that is, when the text appears to be wrought of traumatic experience. Indicators of a “trauma text” are narrative techniques often associated with postmodernism — expressly, intertextuality, repetition, a dispersed or fragmented voice, and a search for powerful language. The anonymous Beowulf poet made extensive use of all four narrative techniques, suggesting he and his culture were suffering from traumatic stress. The author brings together knowledge from myriad disciplines — among them history, anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology, with special emphases on the branches of psychoanalysis and neuropsychology — and focuses his trauma-theory reading on the poem’s original language. The monograph was awarded the D. Simon Evans Prize for distinguished scholarship, and it has been acquired by major libraries across the globe, including the British Library, the Library of Congress, Australian National University, Qatar National Library, Notre Dame University, Duke University, and Purdue University — to name just a few.

The thing that we take the most for granted is time.