Genealogical Method And Body Concerns

Genealogy, a research method with postmodernist character, which was widely applied in social and cultural studies by Foucault. It has explicit critic function to modern society.This method came from Nietzsche who used it to study Christ moral. For Nietzsche, Genealogy was a philosophic hammer which investigate" essence "and discovered "origin ", Nietzsche also called it as "gay science ". Foucault introduced it and applied in all the field of subject and power, in order to inspect human`s subjectivity and existence, exposing how severely our body has suffered.Genealogy is grey, which searched the real facts in the pictographic document illegibly and explored those marginal, strange, trivial field beyond reason, monitored our world by a zero perspective. The character of Genealogy is liberative and subvertable. We can see that those be pressed and marginalised always conceal truth from Nietzschean moral criticise to Foucault`s researched in subject and power. Genealogy with its postmodernist character, countered totallization and metaphysics, concerning difference, otherness, margin and segment. This method attentioned blood and body familiarly. Just as Nietzsche considered body more primary than reason, Foucault discovered that history inscripted himself on body brutally. From this point, body can been see as carrier of our cultrue. In west culture, Body was a degrading metaphor means inferior ignorantce unreason and desire. Genealogy researched how human being depressed by knowledge discourse sex, how our body being changed dissimilated and so on. In order to return to body and felt our strong life.My thesis constituted by three section :1, Nietzsche`s contribution and tactics in using genealogy. He used this method to oppose Christianity, liberated our body and desire from theology, resecued human being from modernity burden by biological aesthetics, art and body poetics. 2, Foucault use genealogy in power and sex field progressively, he found the reason of subject`s lost and gave a fierce focus on power by perspective. Foucault created"existent aesthetics", which represented our desire and body, we can living aesthetically on the earth. 3, Genealogy concerned...