_The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History_

Turning genealogy back on itself, Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm investigates how it became a dominant paradigm for doing history—and what it means that scholars now routinely historicize everything but their own tools. Blending intellectual history with philosophical analysis, the book offers fresh readings of Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Foucault, situating them in their historical contexts while challenging familiar narratives about their relationships to theory, method, and critique. It also charts the intertwined development of history and philosophy as academic disciplines, reconstructing genealogy’s surprising entanglements with eugenics, racial essentialism, and power. A method often wielded to criticize authority, Storm shows, has long carried unexamined legacies of its own. Yet this is more than a critical project—it is a philosophical reckoning with the limits of historiography itself. As genealogy has hardened into a default genre of scholarly suspicion, The Genealogy of Genealogy calls for rethinking its epistemic foundations and political stakes. It also recovers a lost possibility: an insurgent, joyful counter-knowledge glimpsed primarily in Foucault’s private writings. The book thus ultimately opens a path toward alternative historiographies, encouraging scholars to imagine new methods and possibilities.