Core Readings
G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy, trans. E.S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson, in three volumes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1892)
G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction: Reason in History. Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of World (1822-1828 and 1830-1831 versions), trans. H.B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life” (1873).
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage, 1989).
Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2024).
Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, la généalogie, l’histoire,” p. 136-156, in Foucault, Dits et Écrits 1954-1988, Tome II 1970-1975, text no. 84, eds. Daniel Defert, François Ewald, and Jacques Lagrange (Paris: Gallimard, 1994); “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” p. 76-101, in Foucault, The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).
Foucault, L’ordre du discours. Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, prononcée le 2 décembre 1970 (Paris: Gallimard, 1971).
Additional Readings
Rebecca Comay, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010)
Bernard E. Harcourt, “On Critical Genealogy,” Contemporary Political Theory (2024), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00715-y.
Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013).
Jean Hyppolite, Introduction à la philosophie de l’histoire de Hegel (Paris: Le Seuil, 1983 [1948]); Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of History, trans. Bond Harris and Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996).
Daniele Lorenzini, “On Possibilising Genealogy,” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (2019), OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712227.
Pierre Macherey, “Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?” Theory, Culture & Society, 40(1-2), 19-36 (2022), available at https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221084903.
Martin Saar, Genealogie als Kritik: Geschichte und Theorie des Subjekts nach Nietzsche und Foucault (Frankfurt: Campus, 2007).