NIetzche, Genealogy, History

"False history gets made all day, any day -- the truth of the new is never on the news." -- A. Rich

Nietzsche’s text can be defined as an examination of the origin of moral preconceptions. It retraces his personal involvement with such origins: he recalls the period when he “calligraphied” philosophy, when he questioned if God must be held accountable for the origin of Evil. Nietzsche attempts to capture the essence of things because this search assumes the existence of “immobile forms that precede the external world of accident and succession” (78). Disparity is found at the historical beginnings of things—the origin always precedes the fall. Genealogy seeks to reestablish the various systems of subjection, As Nietzsche demonstates in his analysis of good and evil, “it is a “non-place” which indicates that the adversaries do not belong in a common space” (85).Domination leads to a differentiation of values where the law is a calculated pleasure. He links historical sense to the historian’s history—both share a similar beginning and the same sign where symptoms of sickness can be recognized. Historical sense gives rise to three uses that oppose and correspond to the three Platonic modalities of history: the first is parodic, directed against reality; the second is dissociative, directed against identity; the third is sacrificial, directed against truth. Nietzsche reproaches critical history for detaching us from every real source and for sacrificing the very movement of life to the exclusive concern for truth.