...remark in his essay on "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," in Language, Counter- Memory, Practice that "History becomes 'effective' to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being" (p. 154). certain debt to the structuralist historian Georges Dumezil's concept of periods as unified...

...continuity. For example, Michel Foucault, in urging a concept that he calls "effective history," writes: History becomes "effective" to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being—as it divides our emotions, dramatizes our instincts, multiplies our body and sets it against...

...history, does not depend on "rediscovery," and it emphatically excludes the "rediscovery of ourselves." History becomes "effective" to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being. 43 Foucault helpfully ties together the private and the public aspects of history here and thus makes...

...history," that is, a history free from constants and self-recognition." "Effective history," he urged, "deprives the self of the reassuring stability of life and nature," and will not submit to the "voiceless obstinacy toward a millenial ending."26 Hence, it seeks what is close...

...sovereignty to the events of his past."14 1 Avoiding the categories of continuity, teleology, and destiny, "History becomes 'effective' to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being." 142 In this notion of effective history, echoes of Foucault's account of what is meant by an archaeological...

..."landmark" or a "point of reference" (such as the Lighthouse), a history of discontinuities, a history that "divides our emotions, dramatizes our instincts, multiplies our body and sets it against itself. "51 The very value of Woolfs narrative lies in its refusal to promote any one alternative history,...

...radical revision of the discursive practices of the historian leads us back to Foucault, who claimed that history "becomes 'effective' to the degree that it...instincts, multiplies our body and sets it against itself'. 24 This is why the novel in general and historiographic metafiction in particular has a distinct advantage...

...for retracing the past as a patient and continuous development must be systematically dismanded . . . History becomes 'effective' to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being" (Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, 1977). The Enlightenment idea of a linear Progress of Reason is...

...dilemma facing genealogical praxis. Foucault is certainly correct in suggesting that Nietzsche believes 'history becomes "effective" to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being' (NGH 134l. Effective history is contraposed with the suprahistorical perspectives that use teleological...

...misses what Foucault takes to be the central lesson of Nietzsche's conception of effective history: History becomes 'effective' to the degree that it...self of the reassuring stability of life and nature ... It will uproot its traditional foundations and relentlessly disrupt its pretended continuity.42...