The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History

A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history.

The genealogical method--a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless is in fact contingent, bound to shifting relations of meaning, knowledge, and power--has become the dominant paradigm of humanistic inquiry. In The Genealogy of Genealogy, Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm turns this influential practice back on itself, tracing its unlikely rise through Nietzsche and Foucault and uncovering its suppressed ties to eugenics and racism. He rethinks the very stakes of critical history and proposes new tools for thinking about historical continuity, change, and difference.

Provocative and timely, The Genealogy of Genealogy offers both a diagnosis and a vision, challenging scholars across the humanities and social sciences to rethink how we write history and whether our most trusted methods are fit for the futures we seek to build.

Author: Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/20/2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780226847313