Abstract

This article analyses the first four parts of Foucault's work Nietzsche, genealogy, history (1971), demonstrating that there are three elaborate emphases on genealogical procedure. They are determinants of the genealogical praxis of the French thinker. I propose two moments of analysis: a resumption and an evaluation of aspects of Foucault's "reading" of genealogy to develop the most important consequence from this parti pris: replacing the body as an instinct by the subject as a function, Foucault's genealogy finds its originality as genealogy of historical bodies.

Keywords
genealogy; history; bodies; origin