IZ KLINIKE U PODZEMLJE (FUKOOVO UVOĐENJE GENEALOGIJE)
FROM THE CLINIC TO THE UNDERGROUND (FOUCAULT’S INTRODUCTION OF GENEALOGY)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we consider the issue of Foucault’s introduction of genealogy. We begin with his Archeology of Knowledge, in which he summarizes his previous work, explaining the elements of the archaeological procedure practiced in earlier books but also expressing somewhat of a dissatisfaction with what he has achieved. In this way, he opens the door for hitherto unnamed but clearly foreshadowed genealogy. At the same time, Foucault neither abandons nor rejects archaeology, but conjoins it with genealogy in order to ensure that a transformation principle as the function of foundation has been established. By focusing on the transition from one phase of his work to another, we reveal that the concept of positivity has the role of a mediator, appearing in Archeology of Knowledge as a rarefied form of positivism (according to Deleuze’s interpretation) and then occuring in a phrase according to which „genealogical mood will be one of happy positivism”. Since positivism is incompatible with the philosophical school of thought to which Foucault believed he belonged, we dedicate the central part of the paper to the issue of positivism in his work. We then turn to genealogy itself, considering not only the text „Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”, the manifesto of Foucault’s late work, but also his „Lecture One: 7 January 1976”. Next, we demonstrate how Foucault implemented his views on genealogy as a pairing of underground and scholarly knowledge in the book Discipline and Punish. Finally, we present Foucault’s stance on archeology as a method and genealogy as a tactic, which, according to him, establishes the completeness of the project.

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