Abstract The normative status of Michel Foucault’s critical method of genealogy has been the topic of much debate in secondary scholarship. Against the criticisms forwarded by Nancy Fraser and Jürgen Habermas, I argue that genealogy is not a normatively ambitious exercise insofar as it does not aim to judge its objects of critique. Rather, genealogy ought to be understood as reparatively concerned with the task of marking out possibilities for transforming those practices that constitute problems for our present selves. To clarify this feature of genealogy, I take up Foucault’s late writings on care to show how this affect informs his critical practice. Care is important, I suggest, for highlighting the intimacy between critique and transformation. Once we understand how care guides genealogical inquiry, we can begin to see how Foucault’s method of critique is reparative rather than robustly normative.

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福柯谱系的修复批判、关怀和规范性

摘要 米歇尔·福柯家谱批判方法的规范地位一直是中学学术界争论不休的话题。针对 Nancy Fraser 和 Jürgen Habermas 提出的批评，我认为系谱学并不是一项规范上雄心勃勃的工作，因为它不旨在判断其批评对象。相反，谱系学应该被理解为与标记出改变那些对我们现在的自我构成问题的实践的可能性的任务相关的任务。为了阐明谱系学的这一特征，我引用了福柯晚期关于关怀的著作，以展示这种影响如何影响他的批判实践。我建议，要强调批评与转变之间的密切关系，谨慎很重要。一旦我们了解关怀如何引导家谱调查，