History as Wound: Foucault's Genealogical Provocation in Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

Author(s)	Mr. Siddhanta Lal
Country	India
Abstract	Michel Foucault's Nietzsche, Genealogy, History (1971) is frequently cited and rarely read on its own terms. This paper argues that the essay is not a preamble to the institutional analyses that follow it but an original theoretical event: a redefinition of what historical inquiry is for. By reconstructing Foucault's tripartite dismantling of Ursprung (origin) through Herkunft (descent) and Entstehung (emergence), and by attending carefully to his account of wirkliche Historie, also known as effective history. The paper shows how genealogy reconstitutes the historian as a politically situated, embodied subject answerable to the present. The essay's reach into Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality is traced, its limits, reflexivity, Eurocentrism — are assessed without evasion, and the claim is advanced that genealogy's most important contribution is not conceptual but ethical: a way of inhabiting the present with less credulity.
Keywords	Genealogy, Power/Knowledge, Effective History, Historiography, Subjugated Knowledges
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-29
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.79694

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