Genealogy

"The Loneliest Desert": Science and the Ascetic Ideal in Nietzsche's Genealogy

by Nicholas Smyth

Draft, all comments welcome!

This paper is my attempt to make sense of Nietzsche's claim, made in the final few sections of the Genealogy of... more This paper is my attempt to make sense of Nietzsche's claim, made in the final few sections of the Genealogy of Morals, that scientific practise and the Christian 'ascetic ideal' share the same foundation. This is a puzzling and counterintuitive claim, yet, I shall attempt to elucidate and defend Nietzsche on this score, arguing that the scientist's attempt to eliminate pretense-like mental states from inquiry is a paradigm case of ascetic activity. Nietzsche's fundamental insight is that science, qua ascetic practise, cannot stand as the required counter-ideal that might banish the ascetic ideal from human life.

I am Beginning to Understand by Carol P. Christ

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Elizabeth Kelly Inglis died in 1927 at age 62 from complications of a stroke. Secondary causes were malnutrition and... more Elizabeth Kelly Inglis died in 1927 at age 62 from complications of a stroke. Secondary causes were malnutrition and exhaustion.

When I was a child, my father, though he was very close to his own parents and sister, spoke very little about his ancestors. I knew that both of his parents lost their fathers when they were small children. I was told that the Christs were German and the Inglises were Scottish and Irish. My grandmother Mary Inglis Christ was as Irish as the day is long. She prayed to the blessed Virgin and took me to church with her in the early mornings where she lit candles and whispered the rosary while fingering faceted lavender beads. She voted for Kennedy because he was Irish and Catholic—to the horror of my father and his father who had no use for the Democrats. My grandmother sometimes cried when she showed us photographs of her family, especially when she pointed to her sister Veronica, called Very. I sensed that my grandmother felt sad to have left her family in New York when she moved with her husband and children to California during the depression, but I was too young to understand fully. As far as I know, I never met any of the relatives from her side of the family, even when I moved to “back east.”

Review of Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America by Ladelle McWhorter

by Anna Carastathis

Symposium, Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy / Société canadienne de philosophie continentale 16(1): 2012, 250-256.
Online publication January 29, 2012.

Race and Genealogy : Buffon and the Formation of the Concept of “Race

by Claude-Olivier Doron

Draft to be published in Humana.Mente, 22, Special Issue “Making sense of Gender, Sex, Race and the Family”, July 2012

This article analyses the conditions of formation of the concept of “race” in natural history in the middle of the... more This article analyses the conditions of formation of the concept of “race” in natural history in the middle of the XVIIIth century. Relying on the method of historical epistemology to avoid some of the aporia raised by the traditional historiography of “racism”, it focuses on the specifities of the concept of “race” in contrast to others (“variety”, “species”…) and tries to answer the following questions: to what extent the concept of “race” was integrated in natural history’s discourses before the middle of the XVIIIth century? To which kind of concepts and problems was it linked and to which style of reasoning did it pertain? To which conditions could it enter natural history and develop in it? The article answers that “race” pertained to a genealogical style of reasoning which was largely extraneous to natural history before the middle of the XVIIIth century. Natural history was rather dominated by another style of reasoning, logical and classificatory, which principles and concepts defined strong obstacles to the development of a concept of “race”. To understand how the concept of “race” developed in natural history, one has to understand how the genealogical style of reasoning entered natural history and modified the very principles of classification that organized it. I try to establish that it is through Buffon and some of the main authors of the “monogenist” tradition that the most fundamental conditions for the integration of a genealogical style of reasoning and the development of a concept of “race” are met. To put it clearly, in contrast to many scholars’ analysis and following some intuitions of P.R Sloan, I argue that Buffon in particular, and monogenism in general, were decisive in the integration and development of the concept of “race” in natural history.

Newer data on the historian Dominic Zavorović, his family and in-laws / Novija saznanja o povjesničaru Dinku Zavoroviću, njegovoj obitelji i svojti

by Iva Kurelac

Published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 25, 2008, pp. 183-202.

In the article are presented new data on the historian and humanist of Šibenik Dominic (Dinko) Zavorović, his family... more In the article are presented new data on the historian and humanist of Šibenik Dominic (Dinko) Zavorović, his family and in-laws, found by research into archival sources from the archival series Šibenski notarski arhiv (the Notarial Archive of Šibenik) and Šibenski općinski arhiv (the Communal Archive of Šibenik) of the State Archive of Zadar and by means of the analysis of a certain number of documents from the Diocesan Archive of Šibenik. The introductory part of the work briefly analyses the former results of Croatian historiography on that subject and it is established that some crucial data on the Zavorovići, several times presented in scholarly literature, are in fact incorrect and incomplete. The purpose of this article is, among other things, to correct such matters. The methods and goals of research into archival sources, encompassing a period of approximately ninety years, are focused on the person of Dominic Zavorović and some other members of his family. After the results are presented, the relevant parts of the notarial documents are transcribed in their Latin original form. The most important corrections found in the archival sources refer to the issue of origin of Zavorović’s mother, but also to his relationship to the Vrančići. Given as appendices to the article there are the genealogical scheme centred on Dominic Zavorović, the transcript of the marital contract of Dominic Zavorović and Claire Vrančić, the transcript of a charter containing data on the ancestry of the Zavorovići and the list of archival boxes from the archival series Šibenski notarski arhiv of the State Archive of Zadar researched up to now.
 
Keywords
historiography; humanism; Dalmatia; Šibenik; Dinko Zavorović; the Zavorovići family

Family, faith and farming in early-modern Lancashire: The Stansfields of Inchfield, Walsden, c.1633-1763

by Robert E. Stansfield

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 159 (2010), pp. 19-44.
ISSN 0140-332X.

Cultivating kin in Lancashire: The Stansfields of Long Clough, Littleborough, c.1697-1861

by Robert E. Stansfield

(2011)

Settling Descent. Place-making and Genealogy in Talas

by Judith Beyer

In: Central Asian Survey 30, 3-4. pp. 455-46

Finding the parents of John Moore of Orange County

by Bart Kowallis

Kowallis, B.J., 2007, Finding the parents of John Moore of Orange County: New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, v. 138, p. 273-283.

The Duers/Dewers Family of Washington County

by Bart Kowallis

Kowallis, B.J., 2006, The Duers/Dewers Family of Washington County: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record: v. 137, p. 93-102 and 201-210.

The problem of Patience Dewey (wife of Timothy S. Blaisdell)

by Bart Kowallis

Kowallis, B.J., 2004, The problem of Patience Dewey (wife of Timothy S. Blaisdell): Susquehanna County Historical Society Journal of Genealogy & Local History, v. 15, n. 2, p. 83-85.

«Umile angolo di terra latina». Giandomenico Bertoli a Mereto di Tomba

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: "Gian Domenico Bertoli e la cultura antiquaria del ’700", atti del convegno (Aquileia, 8-9 dicembre 2001), “Bollettino del Gruppo Archeologico Aquileiese”, XI, 11, dicembre 2001, pp. 14-27

Before the facsimile edition (2002-2003) of the previously unpublished manuscripts of the second and third volumes of... more Before the facsimile edition (2002-2003) of the previously unpublished manuscripts of the second and third volumes of "The Antiquities of Aquileia", on 8 and 9 December 2001 the Aquileia Archaeological Group organizes the conference "Gian Domenico Bertoli and the antiquarian culture of the eighteenth century" and subsequently publishes the conference proceedings in its bulletin. Among other scientific studies, the essay "«Humble corner of Latin land»: Giandomenico Bertoli in Mereto di Tomba" offers a summary of the relationship between G.D. Bertoli (1676-1763) and his native country (located in the province of Udine) during the long life of that cultured canon who was also collector, inventor, epigrapher and amateur archaeologist but, above all, the first true "pathfinder" of the ancient Aquileia

Prima di pubblicare in facsimile (2002-2003) i manoscritti inediti del II e III tomo delle "Antichità d’Aquileja", l’8 e il 9 dicembre 2001 il Gruppo Archeologico Aquileiese organizza il convegno "Gian Domenico Bertoli e la cultura antiquaria del ’700", di cui pubblica gli atti nel proprio bollettino: fra gli altri interventi, il saggio "«Umile angolo di terra latina»: Giandomenico Bertoli a Mereto di Tomba" propone una sintesi dei rapporti fra G.D. Bertoli (1676-1763) e il suo paese natio (ubicato in provincia di Udine) nel corso della lunga vita del dotto canonico che fu anche collezionista, inventore, epigrafista, archeologo dilettante e soprattutto primo vero "esploratore" dell'Aquileia antica

Foucault, poder y acontecimiento

by Gonzalo Montenegro

Antes que por la economía política del marxismo, la crítica propia de Foucault se halla atravesada por los signos de... more Antes que por la economía política del marxismo, la crítica propia de Foucault se halla atravesada por los signos de la genealogía nietzscheana. El ya famoso texto editado por Deleuze en 1967, que dio un fuerte impulso a la investigación de la obra de Nietzsche en Francia, constituye una de las primeras aproximaciones al concepto de genealogía. En dicho estudio, Deleuze establece una serie de rasgos en la obra nietzscheana que permiten realizar una filosofía crítica, enfocada principalmente al problema moral. En ella define la genealogía como la cuestión dedicada a la determinación del nacimiento de los valores por medio del diagnóstico de las valoraciones que les dan origen. Esto es, revelar la medida en que todo valor nace de una valoración que le precede y en que ella, a su vez, se haya atravesada por valores determinados.

New Evidence for the Teutonic Order’s Bavarian Origins: Fragments Found

by Dana Cushing

This brief article  publicizes four little-known sources relevant to the history of the Teutonic Order’s first... more This brief article  publicizes four little-known sources relevant to the history of the Teutonic Order’s first Grand Master, Heinrich Walpott von Bassenheim, for the purpose of notifying specialists and promoting further research.

Latinsk-svensk ordlista för person- och släkthistoriker : Hoc est, glossārium Latīnō-Svecānum prō geneālōgicīs arcāna linguae Rōmānae discendī cupidīs, īnfīnītīs paene labōribus continuīsque vigiliīs compositum et nunc prīmum in lūcem ēditum

by Urban Sikeborg

Not published in a printed journal.

A Latin-Swedish Glossary for Genealogists. A compilation of 4,000 a) Latin terms and phrases usually found in Swedish... more A Latin-Swedish Glossary for Genealogists. A compilation of 4,000 a) Latin terms and phrases usually found in Swedish ecclesiastical and judicial records from the period 1520–1850; b) Latin names of ecclesiastical holidays frequently found in church records, and b) Neo-Latin names of professions and crafts.

ChronoTape: Tangible Timelines For Family History

by Peter Bennett

In the Proceedings of the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interfaces Conference 2012 (TEI'12)

An explosion in the availability of online records has led to surging interest in genealogy. In this paper we explore... more An explosion in the availability of online records has led to surging interest in genealogy. In this paper we explore the present state of genealogical practice, with a particular focus on how the process of research is recorded and later accessed by other researchers. We then present our response, ChronoTape, a novel tangible interface for supporting family his- tory research. The ChronoTape is an example of a temporal tangible interface, an interface designed to enable the tangible representation and control of time. We use the ChronoTape to interrogate the value relationships between physical and digital materials, personal and professional practices, and the ways that records are produced, maintained and ultimately inherited. In contrast to designs that support exist- ing genealogical practice, ChronoTape captures and embeds traces of the researcher within the document of their own re- search, in three ways: (i) it ensures physical traces of digital research; (ii) it generates personal material around the use of impersonal genealogical data; (iii) it allows for graceful degradation of both its physical and digital components in order to deliberately accommodate the passage of information into the future.

Dall’Emilia al Friuli: il tipario di un condottiero parmense “al soldo” di Venezia contro i Turchi

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in “Nobiltà. Rivista di araldica, genealogia, ordini cavallereschi”, XVI, 86, settembre-ottobre 2008, pp. 459-486

During one of the campaigns of archaeological excavation conducted in recent years by archaeologists at the site of... more During one of the campaigns of archaeological excavation conducted in recent years by archaeologists at the site of the medieval castle of Cergneu, a hamlet in the municipality of Nimis (UD), in the summer of 2004 the land returned – among other archaeological finds – a heraldic seal of pendant armorial type that turned out to be particularly interesting. The researches undertaken by the Author allowed the identification of the owner of the recovered bronze tipario (the captain of fortune John Quirico of Sanvitale, from Parma), rehabilitating his image at a distance of half a millennium, and they also added to regional and interregional sigillography a new chapter connected to the theme of the "Turkish" invasions at the end of the fifteenth century, so reopening some pages of the History of Friuli (and not only) that are considered ascertained by now.

Nell’estate del 2004, durante una delle campagne di scavo condotte negli ultimi anni dagli archeologi nel sito castrense medievale di Cergneu, in comune di Nimis (UD), la terra ha fra l’altro restituito un sigillo araldico di tipo armoriale a ciondolo che si è poi rivelato particolarmente interessante. Le ricerche svolte dall’autore hanno consentito di identificare il titolare del tipario bronzeo recuperato (il condottiero di ventura parmense Giovanni Quirico di Sanvitale) riabilitandone l’immagine a distanza di mezzo millennio, nonché di aggiungere alla sfragistica regionale e interregionale un nuovo capitolo connesso alle invasioni “turchesche” della fine del XV secolo, riaprendo così alcune pagine della storia del Friuli (e non solo) date ormai per accertate.

Lo “sfondo” prezioso. Villa Bresciani e il suo “ospite” più grande

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: Il Cristo ritrovato. Dalla basilica dei Santi Felice e Fortunato di Aquileia alla cappella Bresciani di Cervignano del Friuli: confronti e restauri (atti del convegno di studi: Cervignano, 3 dicembre 2005), ed. S. Blason Scarel, Aquileia 2007, pp. 84-129 [preprint]

The symposium “The found Christ” took place in Cervignano del Friuli (Udine) on Saturday, December 3, 2005, within the... more The symposium “The found Christ” took place in Cervignano del Friuli (Udine) on Saturday, December 3, 2005, within the homonymous multi-year project (coord. scient. S. Blason Scarel and P. Casadio) dedicated to the rediscovery of the "Christ of the Countess", a colossal medieval wooden crucifix preserved in the chapel of St. Cross, the gentilitial oratory of the villa Bresciani in Cervignano. The Conference Proceedings are published two years later, enriched by further updates: in the volume the author outlines – for the first time – the history of the residence founded by the noble Bresciani family in Cervignano (the precious 'background' of the ancient sculpture) and he describes the different buildings, the dependencies and the furnishings including his famous 'guest', suggesting again the proposal that he already put forth at the symposium: that it is to be identified with the "Christ of St. Felix", a gigantic wooden crucifix seen in 1570 by the apostolic visitor Bartolomeo of Porcia & Brugnera inside the Basilica of Sts. Felix e Fortunate in Aquileia, at that time still raised although no more flourishing

Sabato 3 dicembre 2005 a Cervignano si svolse il convegno “Il Cristo ritrovato”, nell’ambito dell’omonimo progetto pluriennale (coordinamento scientifico: S. Blason Scarel - P. Casadio) dedicato alla riscoperta del “Cristo della Contessa”, il colossale crocifisso ligneo medievale conservato nella cappella di S. Croce, l’oratorio gentilizio della villa Bresciani a Cervignano. A due anni di distanza vede la luce il volume degli atti – arricchito da ulteriori aggiornamenti – al cui interno l’autore per la prima volta delinea le vicende storiche della dimora cervignanese fatta costruire dalla nobile famiglia Bresciani (il prezioso ‘sfondo’ dell’antica scultura) e ne descrive i diversi fabbricati, le pertinenze e l’arredo compreso il suo celebre ‘ospite’, riproponendo la proposta già avanzata durante il convegno: che esso sia da identificare con il “Cristo di San Felice”, il gigantesco crocifisso in legno visto dal visitatore apostolico Bartolomeo di Porcia e Brugnera nel 1570 all’interno della basilica aquileiese dei Santi Felice e Fortunato, all’epoca non più fiorente ma ancora in alzato

An Itinerant Sheep, and the Origins of the Livonians: Friedrich Menius's "Syntagma De Origine Livonorum" (1635) [Abstract]

by Stefan Donecker

In: Journal of Baltic Studies 43 (2012)

Babich-The Genealogy of Morals and Right Readng On the Nietzschean Aphorism

by Babette Babich

Citation information
Babette Babich, "The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic.” In: Christa Davis Acampora, ed., Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 171-190.