Foucault, the genealogy, the history of education

Abstract

Nietzsche, genealogy, history is one of Michel Foucault's most famous texts. Through a kind of tribute and, at the same time, theoretical-practical appropriation, the French thinker credits to Nietzsche his genealogical history enterprise, in which come to occupy a place - alongside what he names historical sense or effective history - the inconstancy and temporariness of events, in opposition to both the essential restitution of things and reunion of a perpetual identity, or still, to the recognition of a universal unit of the anthropological subject. The proposition of this dossier, Foucault, genealogy, history of education, seeks, in a direct allusion to Foucault's text, to congregate approaches and reflections in close articulation to the historical-genealogical analysis proposed by Foucault, in a way to focalize critically the verdict games involved in the contemporary educational investigation.