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Genealogy
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Genealogy examines the formation of practices and values rather than taking them as necessary. Nietzsche and Foucault pursue distinct inquiries that require evidence, not a shared formula.
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Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 60
Becoming an individual: two challenges to inherited values
Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes de Silentio confronts a faith he cannot explain away, and Nietzsche asks how moral judgments acquired their authority. The lesson preserves their differences over what commitment demands.
Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 68
Who makes the categories by which we live?
Foucault describes productive power, which shapes categories and knowledge; Derrida brings a different question about meaning. What do an institution’s assessments reveal, and what do they help to create?