TOTALITY, DIALECTIC, CAUSALITY, CLASS: ABOMINABLE WORDS IN THE GENEALOGY IN NIETZSCHE/FOUCAULT? GENEALOGICAL ANTI-HISTORY AND THE INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION WITH MARX AND HIS LEGACY IN THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL TOTALITIES AND THEIR CLASS CONFRONTS

Abstract

This work aims demonstrate that the genealogy in the terms of Foucault, learned by him through his readings from Friedrich Nietzsche literary works, is a distant field to the way of how the majority of history professionais think and practices their subject, in particular those with the marxist tradition, which include Marx e Engels contributions to the sedimentation of historical materialism and its legacy even in the current days. As the genealogy proposes that all historic events happen by chance, with no connected causes, it is na opposition to a critical historical point of view therefore, expressions such as dialectic, objectivity, and totality seem to be hated by a genealogist. So, the premisses that rules the genealogist field are not able to explain even a single topic marked by the notion of totality and contradiction. Topic such as colonial dominação, world wars and the work in a capitalist sphere, for instance, all marked by deep social contradictions.