... shifted to a genealogical approach influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of history that accounted for some of the deficiencies in his earlier approach.[6] In "Questions of Method, " Foucault participated in a roundtable discussion reflecting on his approach to the study of the history of the penal system in Discipline and Punish (1975). Michel Foucault's unorthodox historiography does not treat the past ... is if it were an open book. He put it beautifully in the opening passage of "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, " where he described writing history as deciphering a palimpsest.[7...

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