How to Resist? Rethinking Foucault’s Concept of Genealogy

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Brief Overview

This paper argues that genealogy is central to Foucault’s political thought. It examines how genealogy reframes counter history, power, and resistance and how it shifts the focus of political struggle toward embodied forms of subjectivity.

Author

• Wuliang Qu, Tsinghua University