This leads Asad's deployment of the genealogical method in order to understand why a country like the United States denominates itself as secular despite the distinctly religious Manichaean tones good and evil often found within the historical record of the United States.
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In philosophy, the genealogical method is a historical technique in which one questions the commonly understood emergence of various philosophical and social beliefs by attempting to account for the scope, breadth or totality of ideology within the time period in question, as opposed to focusing on a singular or dominant ideology.
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According to philosopher Rene Girard, Nietzsche's greatest political legacy lies in his 20th century interpreters, among them Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze ( and F�lix Guattari ), and Jacques Derrida . . . Foucault's later writings, for example, revise Nietzsche's genealogical method to develop rhizome and other " outsides " to state power as traditionally conceived.
