Genealogy requires the removal of totalizing discourse’s tyranny

Evidence

These genealogies are a combination of erudite knowledge and what people know. They would not have been possible—they could not even have been attempted—were it not for one thing: the removal of the tyranny of overall discourses, with their hierarchies and all the privileges enjoyed by theoretical vanguards. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the enabling condition for genealogy: liberation from overarching discourse hierarchies.
• XREF: connects to: Pre-modern genealogical narrative lacks historical personality in a way the nation’s biography cannot. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 746; Sovereignty claims hinge on genealogical parity with rival empires — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 133; Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28 (+6 more)

Related

• Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself (similarity 0.88)
• Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse (similarity 0.87)
• Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release (similarity 0.85)
• Genealogy refuses to take sovereignty, the state, and civil society as givens (similarity 0.83)
• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength (similarity 0.82)
• Genealogy works backward from present certainties to their contingencies (similarity 0.81)
• Analyzing the present requires tracing its anterior genealogical conditions of existence (similarity 0.81)
• A discourse is an archive that genealogy must excavate. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28
• Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions #qualifies (0.75)
• Scholarly discourse can itself silence and wound marginalized participants #exemplifies (0.75)
• Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts #expands (0.72)
• Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized. #exemplifies (0.70)