ABSTRACT
In continental philosophy, perhaps the name most associated with the term "genealogy" in Nietzsche's sense is Michel Foucault, who gives an analysis of Nietzsche's text in a 1977 paper entitled "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." Existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical and literary movement centered on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, though its roots lay with Nietzsche and the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In philosophy, postmodernism is most associated with the Nietzschean themes of the problematic nature of truth and interpretation, and the fundamental importance of power. A number of analytic philosophers have also attempted to follow Nietzsche's Genealogy with related projects. Like Nietzsche, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre also proceeds in a deeply historical vein, and MacIntyre follows Nietzsche in regarding the Enlightenment project of rationally justifying morality as unworkable. He views Nietzsche as a pivotal figure because of his "relentlessly serious pursuit" of this problem.
