They are those acts of disowning in and through which the genealogist begins and continues his or her separation from that against which through genealogical enquiry he or she is contending, by disclosing what he or she now takes to be the pretensions and crippling misrepresentations of, as it may be, Christianity, Judaism, the Socratic dialectic, the Platonic metaphysics, the theology of Augustine or Aquinas, the ethics of Kant or whatever. The function of genealogy as emancipatory from deception
