On the Sense of Genealogy

Abstract

 In “On the Sense of Genealogy”, from several texts of Ecce Homo, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science and On the Genealogy of Morals, Martiarena points out the sense, the aim that, in Nietzsche’s thought, has to make studies on moral history: to create freedom to new valuations. Also, the author held that in contemporary philosophy Michel Foucault’s work can be seen as genealogy of morals and that the French philosopher practiced and developed the idea of genealogy in the Nietzsche’s original sense.